Vertaling: Joe Jackson. Prelude (In album Night And Day 2).
do You want to do things I can't do Always something breaking us in two You and I could never live alone But don't you feel like breaking out Just one day
to find Chinatown Trying to find Chinatown An old black man Pushing a shopping trolley Filled with tin cans Avoided his glance I'm nervous and I'm lost And
no cure, there's no answer Everything gives you cancer Don't work by night Don't play by day You'll feel all right But you will pay No caffeine
Dear Mom - I thought I found my sister Downtown - less than a week ago I called in - and some guy said I just missed her She moved on - where do you
seventh floor The young guns are ready for war But I'm holding on Long ago and far away I was safe and sound But love got lost Along the way Saturday night
... You could live anywhere you want to Give me one reason to stay Here monsters walk the earth again Mermaids in black and gold Perfume and cocaine
alive Get into a car and drive To the other side Me babe - steppin out Into the night Into the light You babe - steppin out Into the night
Here we stand - (remote control buttons in our sweaty little hands) As one man - (we're lining up and waiting for someone's command) We don't move - (
Why smoke is coming out of ground Tell me why My English make an ugly sound But I try Why the Empire State Building green Tell me why Why house is
m doing I'm happy day to day But then something happens Takes my nerve away Uptown - downtown No one's fussy I'm a target Black, white - day, night
are a friend Then if you're tall and handsome and strong You can wear the uniform and I could play along And so it goes - go round again But now and
my friend and me Don't have an easy day And at night we dance not fight And we need the energy If not the sympathy But I'm brutalized by bass And terrorized
another I stepped into I stepped into Into another Into another world There was no light I was going to all the wrong places Like day from night
At a bar on 43rd at quarter to two Met my friend the Chinese Elvis and hoisted a few He talks like Mickey Mouse And sees with x-ray eyes Lives in a cardboard
me cry - no-one knows my name Is glamour and pain - glamour and pain Do you remember me Or just the shiny shiny shoes I had you kiss for me? And
non-alcoholic whiskey And some Giuliani charm Just because you're paranoid Don't mean they're not out to get ya Don't look at me on the subway And
a single rose, and in her mouth a razorblade Hot, the place was hot Too many people to be safe Who cared It was our night Watch us seize the day And
