Dan Bern Decadent Town lyrics

Decadent town in the southwest

Blistered decadent town

Hairy, unwashed, souless question mark

Of a decadent town

You pull me into your decadence

Every time I pass through

But deep in the guts of your deep, deep past

From somewhere the decadence grew

I knew a guy in your decadent town

He worked strip clubs most of the time

He barely understood English

But he could sure scrap for a dime

Oh, he could sure make a decision

He changed his name six times I knew

And by the time he was ready to die

He was richer then even the Jews

I knew a woman named Frida

She came to you late in her life

But she gave you her blood and when she was through

She had stolen another man's wife

Oh, God all the people I've known there

Rebecca who thought she could sing

And Annie and John and Larry and Kate

Not a one of them's gotten a thing

Decadent town in the southwest

Decadent town

Where heroin's sugar and liquor is breakfast

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And nobody gives a damn

Decadent preachers who live there

Hypocrites, every one

And liars and thieves and at least one I knew of

Who cut off some gangster's thumb

You might think I'm heaping abuse now

You might think I'm going too far

But hell I don't even dislike 'em

It's just someplace I pass in my car

Decadent town that rose from the ashes

That's some old mythology I think

And if you should visit this decadent town

On me have a decadent drink

Oh decadence, what is it anyway

Just a word that some preachers out east

Made up so that folks who had more fun than them

Might stop having such a nice feast

Myself, I like that decadent town

That town in the baking southwest

That gets in your bones if you stay there too long

That's why I'm continuing east

And I'll find my own little decadent town

Wherever I happen to land

Might be in the mountains or down by the sea

Myself, I hope it's in the sand