No Woman Around-The Philosopher Kings

[ti:No Woman Around] [ar:The Philosopher Kings] [al:The Philosopher Kings] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]No Woman Around - The Philosopher Kings [00:12.52]On the main streets and the avenues [00:15.72]In the condos white as knuckles bruised [00:18.40]With the carmine of the busy liquor bars [00:22.84] [00:23.65]There's a dark and mystic beauty [00:25.65] [00:26.21]To these inner-city girls [00:27.90] [00:28.65]That slide by in the velvet of their cars [00:32.40] [00:34.09]Through the dance halls and the shopping malls [00:36.96]And the subways filled with Dresden dolls [00:39.46]To the school of fallen angels on the ground [00:43.46] [00:44.28]The whole city's just an expensive whore [00:47.53]A forest nymph with a pompadour [00:49.34] [00:50.09]But there ain't no woman around [00:53.59] [00:54.65]No there ain't no woman around [00:57.90] [00:59.90]No there ain't no woman around [01:03.34] [01:05.22]Well I'm surrounded by these girls [01:09.15]But there just ain't no woman around [01:14.09] [01:16.03]And the girl that fills my bed [01:18.37]Will hear the words I should've said [01:21.00]To the only true love I ever found [01:25.00] [01:25.93]I'll pretend that make-up in her purse [01:28.75]Is a day-dream not a curse [01:31.00]That comes just to kick me down [01:34.69] [01:35.69]I can still taste the youth of her kiss [01:38.94]Maybe it's the childhood that I missed [01:41.62] [01:42.37]The first time around there's a weird shape to her charms [01:49.22]There's a strange meat on her arms [01:51.47]But there ain't no woman around [01:55.34] [01:56.90]No there ain't no woman around [01:59.90] [02:01.90]No there ain't no woman around [02:05.59] [02:07.03]Well I'm surrounded by these girls [02:10.91]But there just ain't no woman around [02:15.66] [02:17.41]Sometimes I feel I'm running [02:20.59]Like a fever through the night [02:22.97]And I've run myself straight into the ground [02:26.28] [02:27.34]I miss your smile your name [02:30.47]And your breath on my skin [02:32.59]And I'm lost and alone in this crowd [02:37.16] [02:38.53]From the locks and curls and strings of pearls [02:41.72]To the drunk and eager jelly girls [02:43.47] [02:44.03]It's an all-day floor show Matinee in town [02:47.84] [02:49.09]And it suddenly occurs that I'm surrounded by these girls [02:53.10] [02:53.91]But there ain't no woman around [02:57.41] [02:58.97]No there ain't no woman around [03:02.41] [03:03.66]No there ain't no woman around [03:07.53] [03:08.72]Well I'm surrounded by these girls [03:12.47]But there just ain't no woman around