Intro: ) The used to call it Sin City, now its gone way past that; ) Painting the town and then burning it down, now even that's old hat. Now there's a chior of angels at the fall of Rome, Singing "Ave Maria" or "Home Sweet Home", It's just a heathen town, I hear only evil as my tounge gets tightened; I used to be God fearing, now I'm, I'm so frightened. 'Cause the Devil will drag you under by the short tail fin of your Checker cab, and I can't sit down, I'm going overboard, in this heathen town. ) It starts out as a flirtation and ends up as an expensive habit. ) With one eye on a place and that's his prison and the other one on a girl dressed as rabbit. Now you can live forever and do fits and starts, But the only stake you cannot raise is the one driven through your heart, It's just a heathen town, I hear only evil as my tounge gets tightened; I used to be God fearing, now I'm, I'm so frightened. 'Cause the Devil will drag you under by the short tail fin of your Checker cab, and I can't sit down, I'm going overboard, in this heathen town. and I can't sit down, I'm going overboard, in this heathen town. In this heathen town (x4)
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