ROLLING STONES - Shattered lyrics

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Shattered, shattered<br>Love and hope and sex and dreams<br>Are still surviving on the street<br>Look at me, I'm in tatters!<br>I'm a shattered<br>Shattered<br><br>Friends are so alarming<br>My lover's never charming<br>Life's just a cocktail party on the street<br>Big apple<br>People dressed in plastic bags<br>Directing traffic<br>Some kind of fashion<br>Shattered<br><br>Laughter, joy, and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex<br>Look at me, I'm in tatters<br>I'm a shattered<br>Shattered<br><br>All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter 'bout<br>Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta -- I can't give it away on 7th avenue<br>This town's been wearing tatters (shattered, shattered)<br>Work and work for love and sex<br>Ain't you hungry for success, success, success, success<br>Does it matter? (shattered) does it matter? <br>I'm shattered.<br>Shattered<br><br>Ahhh, look at me, I'm a shattered<br>I'm a shattered<br>Look at me- I'm a shattered, yeah<br><br>Pride and joy and greed and sex<br>That's what makes our town the best<br>Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street<br>And look at me, I'm in tatters, yeah<br>I've been battered, what does it matter<br>Does it matter, uh-huh<br>Does it matter, uh-huh, I'm a shattered<br><br>Don't you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up<br>To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!<br>You got rats on the west side<br>Bed bugs uptown<br>What a mess this town's in tatters I've been shattered<br>My brain's been battered, splattered all over manhattan<br><br>Uh-huh, this town's full of money grabbers<br>Go ahead, bite the big apple, don't mind the maggots, huh<br>Shadoobie, my brain's been battered<br>My friends they come around they<br>Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter<br>Pile it up, pile it high on the platter