... This Town ...

[Verse 1]

That Charlie Sedarka was a-playing the piano

Like he was pawing a dirty book

He bit a hole in his big bottom lip

And gave his very best little boy look

It was a song with a topical verse

Which I'm afraid he then proceeded to sing

Something about the moody doomed love

Of the Fish-Finger King

[Chorus]

You're nobody in this town

You're nobody in this crowd

You're nobody till everybody in this town

Thinks you're poison

Got your number, knows it must be avoided

You're nobody till everybody in this town

Thinks you're a bastard

[Verse 2]

Well Mr. Getgood moved up to Self-Made Man Row

Although he swears that he's the salt of the earth

He's so proud of the "kick-me-hard" sign

That they hung on his back at birth

He says "I appreciate beauty

If I have one, then it's my fault

Beauty is on my pillow, beauty is there in my vault"

[Chorus]

You're nobody in this town

You're nobody in this crowd

You're nobody till everybody in this town

Knows you're poison

Got your number, knows it must be avoided

You're nobody till everybody in this town

Thinks you're a bastard

[Verse 3]

The girl with the eternity rock

Went down on her bookie to buy some stock

Now all her signs in the shopping arcades

Say "The corporation thief is The New Jesse James"

Her clothes and her attention were scant

Her eyes were everywhere

Her eyes were like absinthe

The little green figures that dance on his screen

Say everything you want to hear

And not what they mean

They made love while she was changing her dress

She wiped him off, she wiped him out

And then she made him confess

A little amused by the belief in her power

You must remember this it was the fetish of the hour

[Chorus]

You're nobody in this town

You're nobody in this crowd

You're nobody till everybody in this town

Knows you're poison

Got your number, knows it must be avoided

You're nobody till everybody in this town

Thinks you're a bastard

[Outro]

You're nobody in this town

You're nobody in this town

You're nobody in this town

You're nobody in this town

You're nobody in this town

You're nobody in this town

You're nobody in this town

You're nobody in this town