The Hooker

Where do you go at night

Where do you go at night

Wrapped in your cheap cologne

Where do you go at night

Down to the pit with the stinking air

And the smell of the sweat and the death is there

I dance for a dollar and I dance for a dime

Till their eyes are begging and their pockets are mine

I pick a body and I name my fee

I take their money and they take me

That's where I go at night

That's where I go at night

Don't point your finger

Say your prayers at me

The truth is hard but I'm gonna tell it

Ah, there's a whole lot of ways to sell it

How do you spend your days

How do you spend your days

When you can sleep no more

How do you spend your days

I rise at four in the afternoon

I take a match and the kitchen spoon

I wrap my arm in an old necktie

And I find religion on the very first try

I wash my face and I comb my hair

My looks are going but I just don't care

And that's how I spend my days

That's how I spend my days

Don't point your finger

Say your prayers at me

The truth is hard but I'm gonna tell it

Ah, there's a whole lot of ways to sell it

Where do you find your love

Where do you find your love

Where do you run to him

Where do you find your love

I find my love in an old hotel

He's mean and wicked and he knows me well

He takes my body; he takes my mind

Takes my money and he beats me blind

Says he'll help me but he won't say when

Sends me walking on the streets again

And that's where I find my love

That's where I find my love

Don't point your finger

Say your prayers at me

The truth is hard but I'm gonna tell it

Ah, there's a whole lot of ways to sell it

How will you spend your life

How will you spend your life

While ladies play at cards

How will you spend your life

Lying in a circle of velvet rooms

Dying in six inch carpet of tombs

Hiding in the gutter with the aching pains

Trading the years for the aching veins

Dying at last when the tricks are few

And I can't get action from a john like you

Ah, that's how I spend my life

That's how I spend my life

Don't point your finger

Say your prayers at me

The truth is hard but I'm gonna tell it

Ah, there's a whole lot of ways to sell it