ELVIS COSTELLO - Clubland lyrics

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With a handful of backhanders and a bevy of beauty<br>You're going off limits<br>Going off duty<br>Going off the rails<br>Going off with booty<br>They tell tales of fiction found on all the criminal types<br>Lead to a higher ranking man or a face with thin red stripes<br><br>Chorus:<br>The boys next door<br>The mums and dads<br>New weds and nearly-deads<br>Have you ever been had in clubland? <br><br>There's a piece in someone's pocket to do the dirty work<br>You've come to shoot the pony<br>They've come to do the jerk<br>They leave him half way to paradise<br>They leave you half way to bliss<br>The ladies' invitation never seemed like this<br><br>Chorus<br><br>The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town<br>Meanwhile in clubland they are ready to pull them down<br>Hey<br><br>The right to work is traded in for the right to refuse admission<br>Don't pass out now, there's no refund<br>(when) did you find out what you were missing<br>The crowd is taking forty winks minus ten percent<br>You barely get required sleep to go lingering with contemptment<br>Thursday to saturday<br>Money's gone already<br>Some things come in common these days<br>Your hands and work aren't steady<br><br>Chorus