Eurotrash - Momus

Well I used to have a room on the Lower East Side

The place where the European immigrants arrived

With just enough room to swing an alley cat

The time they called me Eurotrash

Down in Chinatown the block was running down

It’s gentrified now, it’s a gallery town

Chic boutiques for the super-rich creeps

For people like me it’s out of reach

For reasons becoming clear to me

New York City you are dead to me

Well you can turn back time but I’m never coming back

To when you called me Eurotrash

Well they called me Eurotrash and I was happy to be

I used to drink at a bar called the Passerby

Where the strobe lights flashed in a floor of many colours

And they played Fischerspooner all night

There was a new American century but Arto Lindsay moved away

And in place of the halls where we used to play

There’s now a million frozen yoghurt joints

For reasons becoming clear to me

New York City you are dead to me

Well you can turn back time or turn your back on me

But I’m never going back to Eurotrash

The day of the beginning of the end of things

I was up on the roof and saw the planes

Ayako took a picture of me with the towers on fire behind

Rika said it was a beautiful sight, we argued around that line all night

But later it was something you would probably cite as a factor in her suicide

For reasons pretty clear to see

New York City you are dead to me

Well you can turn back time but she’s never coming back

From the time they called me Eurotrash

For reasons self-evident and necessary

New York City you are dead to me

Well you can turn back time but I’m never coming back

I’m Eurotrash

Drunkenness