All the late night bargains have been struck Between the satin beaus and their bells Prehistoric garbage trucks Got the city to themselves Echoes and horrors, dinosaurs They're all doing the monster mash The taxis and the whores Are only taking calls for cash I don't know how it happened It all took place so quick All I can do Is hand it to you And your latest trick Now my door was standing open Security was laid back and lax Yeah, my heart had got a broken You must have had a passkey made out of wax It was robbery with insolence And I'm playin' the blues in twelve bars down the Lover's Lane You never had the intelligence for the use Twelve keys hanging off of my chain You know now how it happened It all took place so quick But all I can do Is hand it to you And your latest trick It's past last call for alcohol Past recall has been here and gone The landlord, he finally paid us all The satin jazzmen have put away their horns And I was standing there outside in this wonderland Bereaved and bereft Finally come to understand The bottle's empty, man, there's nothing left Know now how it happened It was faster than the eye could flick But all I can do Is hand it to you And your latest trick