People say I'm no good Write me off, oh yes they should Fuck 'em they're just sick in the head They're writing my history Think somebody should've asked me Everyone was safe in their beds I won't live, won't live like them

(Will they come?) Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs I'll keep a friend serene Oh baby, come unto me Well, she's come, been and gone Come out of the garden, baby You'll catch your death in the fog Oo-oo-ooh, call them the Diamond Dogs Beware of

You can't leave this world behind Veronika, Saint Veronika So be strong enough to hold onto us We're still right here by your side It's just not your time to die Damn God, yeah, God, yeah Oh Veronika, Saint Veronika They found an empty bottle on her

Oh, Lord have mercy on my wicked soul, Hey, black mama, what's the matter with you? Said it ain't satisfaction, don't care what I do, Hey, mama, what's the matter with you? Said it ain't satisfaction, baby, don't care what I do. You take a brown-skinned

You wouldn't know what to say to yourself Love is a poverty you couldn't sell Misery waits in vague hotels To be evicted Oh, when they beat upon a broken guitar And all the streets, they reek of tropical charms The embassies lie in hideous shards Where

You wanna scream and shout They only come out at night She said I can't slow down If I wanted to We live for this shit, yeah We truly do I know you do Oh, I know you do I know you do too

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh When you know somebody And they know your body Oh, oh, oh, (oh-oh) oh, oh, oh (oh-oh) It's so much better So good, so good, so damn, so good When you know somebody, when you know somebody Better and better

Stop whispering, start shouting Dear sir, I have a complaint Doesn't matter anyway And the wise man said I don't want to hear your voice And the thin man said I don't want to hear your voice And they're cursing me And they won't let me be There's nothing

Thinkin' I'll never get over you And I, I get so scared They say love grows, but I've only seen it die I'm too young to feel like I'm runnin' out of time I get so scared I'll always be making a compromise No matter what I do, ooh And maybe (maybe) I'll

Let me take you there Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face And stars fill my dream I'm a traveler of both time and space To be where I have been To sit with elders of the gentle race This world has seldom seen They talk of days for which they sit and