Wide Boys lyrics

Song information

Artist: Ultravox
Album: Ultravox

Lyrics

I took a walk down rue morgue avenue
Wearing my latest disguise
Enjoying the perfume of utter dismay
I was effectively anaesthetised
Starving so arrogantly in jumble-sale pearls
Evangeline hires out my throat
We've got the streets of london mapped in our beds
Nagasaki under our coats

Wide boys -up on the streets
Wide boys - ah, come on and meet me
Wide boys - delightfully unpleasant
With our foxy adolescent sneers

Tired of being put down
Broken-hearted my life not started
Tired of being cut down
All your illusions disillusion me...

Wide boys -up on the streets
Wide boys - ah, come on and meet me
Wide boys - delightfully unpleasant
With our foxy adolescent sneers

Open sore music plays the wrong side of nightmare
Juke-box models collide
The saint on the fire escape bleeds to the sun
Embracing the old suicide bride

I spent a few lifetimes making spinal connections
Down on einstein boulevard
I've proud to walk a tightrope now the gravity's so high
I swagger like a neon guitar

With the wide boys -up on the streets
Wide boys - ah, come on and meet me
Wide boys - delightfully unpleasant
With our foxy adolescent sneers