Elegant Bachelors from Known Associates by The Paranoid Style

The bleak outlines, the cold sunshine
The guys and dolls and guys and guys and guys
Elegant Bachelors
Edith Piaf at the peak of despair, Marcel Cerdan in the middleweight chair
Another mid-air disaster
Elegant Bachelors

On a hillside, beside the closed-up motel
You can still see the ghosts of the old clientele
You can still see the blue, red, white and gray
Elegant Bachelors having their way

All the teachers in all of the schools
All the creatures in all of the pools
Sunday features, outdated tools
Elegant Bachelors

Unsanctioned, out in the night
If you’re raging, if you’re feeling uptight
You just can’t tell the bark from the bite
Elegant Bachelors

Heading down the old roads on the way to the highways
Elegant Bachelors, convenient byways
There are certain roads only a few can go
A certain privilege not many know

On a hillside, by the abandoned old barn
You can still weave a tale, you can still spin a yarn
You can still see the shadows incarcerate the day
Elegant Bachelors having their way

From the tenement block to the penthouse view
From the shock of the old to the old to the shlock of the new
See them dangling from the rafters
Elegant bachelors

When you’ve got too many confessions to make
When you’ve slept at the wheel, when you’ve been on the take
Gimme a chance, gimme a break
Elegant Bachelors

If you buy by the pound, if you buy by the ounce
If you have power that you will not renounce
If others’ tears sound like laughter

• Rock
• Washington