| Now that you’re back in town | 
| You look around at everything | 
| Well, it could be anywhere on earth | 
| Tryin' to count your change | 
| Inside the Asian store | 
| But you can’t figure what it’s worth | 
| And she stands there like a specter | 
| On the corner of the street | 
| And you know you can’t expect her | 
| To be subtle or discreet, no, no, no and | 
| Her cheap chipped black nails | 
| Scratch the surface off a future | 
| That just left you in the past | 
| Her cheap chipped black nails | 
| Pick the threads out of a suture | 
| That was holdin' your life fast | 
| Her cheap chipped black nails | 
| Her cheap chipped black nails | 
| She’s got the bulldog tamed | 
| Docile and subservient | 
| And now it doesn’t make a fuss | 
| She runs with these sparky kids | 
| Who talk into their mobile phones | 
| Well, there must be so much to discuss | 
| And you remember where you came from | 
| But you don’t know where it’s gone | 
| And you cannot find a name on The street where you came from, no, no, no and | 
| Her cheap chipped black nails | 
| Show a wanton skill on the game tables | 
| The pinball and the pool | 
| Her cheap chipped black nails | 
| Scratch the surface off an England | 
| That has made her hard and cruel | 
| Her cheap chipped black nails | 
| And you remember where you came from | 
| But you don’t recognize, don’t recognize it now | 
| And you can’t expect her mercy | 
| Well, that much she won’t allow, no, no, no and | 
| Her cheap chipped black nails | 
| Scratch the surface off a future | 
| That just left you, left you in the past | 
| Her cheap chipped black nails | 
| Pick the threads out of a suture | 
| That was holdin' your life fast | 
| Her cheap chipped black nails | 
| Her cheap chipped black nails |