Shattered, shattered
Love and hope and sex and dreams
Are still surviving on the street

Look at me, I'm in tatters!
I'm a shattered
Shattered


Friends are so alarming
My lover's never charming

Life's just a @@#!tail party on the street
Big Apple
People dressed in plastic bags

Directing traffic
Some kind of fashion
Shattered


Laughter, joy, and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex
Look at me, I'm in tatters

I'm a shattered
Shattered


All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter 'bout
Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta -- I can't give it away on 7th Avenue
This town's been wearing tatters (shattered, shattered)

Work and work for love and sex
Ain't you hungry for success, success, success, success
Does it matter? (Shattered) Does it matter?

I'm shattered.
Shattered




Ahhh, look at me, I'm a shattered

I'm a shattered
Look at me- I'm a shattered, yeah


Pride and joy and greed and sex
That's what makes our town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street

And look at me, I'm in tatters, yeah
I've been battered, what does it matter
Does it matter, uh-huh

Does it matter, uh-huh, I'm a shattered

Don't you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up

To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!
You got rats on the west side
Bed bugs uptown

What a mess this town's in tatters I've been shattered
My brain's been battered, splattered all over Manhattan


Uh-huh, this town's full of money grabbers
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots, huh
Shadoobie, my brain's been battered

My friends they come around they
Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter
Pile it up, pile it high on the platter