Gee, but it's hard when one lowers one's guard to the vultures
 Me, I regard it a tortuous hardship that smoulders
 Like a peppermint eaten away
 Will I fight, will I swagger or sway?
 Hee, hee, M'Lady, she cries like a baby to scold us
 See her tumbling down, tumbling down
 Hail! to the monkey; we're having a funky reunion
 Wasted and sunk, he can only have [bad word]  He got nicotine stains in his eyes
 He got nothing to protect but his pride
 Oh! smother the kiss or be drownded in blissful confusion
 See it tumbling down, tumbling down 

Juvenile tale, see ihe Titanic sail into Brighton
 The Hemingway stacatto, the tragic bravado can frighten!
 To be here, there and everywhere's fine
 But do you have to be so swift all the time?
 Deliver the Dawn to the Moulin-Rouge on the Horizon
 Watch it tumbling down, tumbling down

 Oh! dear, look what they've done to the blues, blues, blues (Repeat)