I Tell You What (Classic)

I've got a new place for smoking I've got a new bed to sleep My new skirts are more provoking My tights aren't cheap New houses, new doors, and new windows Are opening and closing for me All for me Just for me They fling open Got plenty of new streets to walk through And a dozen of new shops at hand New taxis, new drivers to talk to But they don't understand Why don't I remember the number Of my house and the name of my lane I tell you what I tell, I tell you what You're worth living, but things I have are not I tell you what I tell, I tell you what There's nothing so constant, it chokes me like a slipknot I'm changing my life for ages I'm changing my place for years The people around are strangers The strangest are queers They'll wither away, I guess, someday But I don't care for them if you stay Please, stay I tell you what I tell, I tell you what You're worth living, but things I have are not I tell you what I tell, I tell you what There's nothing so constant, it chokes me like a slipknot I tell you what Stay I tell you what Stay I tell you what Stay I tell you what Stay All I've got dissolves the next day What's to be done? Don't know what's to come Something new appears the next day Everything ends And yet I wish you could delay I tell you what I tell, I tell you what You're worth living, but things I have are not I tell you what I tell, I tell you what There's nothing so constant, it chokes me like a slipknot All I've got dissolves the next day What's to be done? Don't know what's to come Something new appears the next day Everything ends And yet I wish you could delay