Her name was Kit ty.

Made her mon ey be ing pret ty and wit ty.

They gave her the keys to this cit y, then they said she did n’t do it le git ly, uh.

I bought a tick et.

She’s danc ing in her gar ters and fish nets.

Fif ty in the cast, ze ro mis steps.

Look ing back, I guess it was kis met.

I wait ed by the stage door, packed in with the au to graph hounds bark ing her name.

Then glow ing like the end of a cig a rette, wow, she came out.

I said, “You’re liv ing my dream.”

Then she said to me,

“Hey,

thank you for the love ly bou quet.

You’re sweet er than a peach.

But you don’t know the life of a show girl, babe, and you’re nev er, ev er gon na.

Wait.

The more you play, the more that you pay.

You’re soft er than a kit ten, so you don’t know the life of a show girl, babe, and you’re nev er gon na wan na.”

She was a men ace, the ba by of the fam ’ly in Len ox.

Her fa ther whored a round like all men did, her moth er took ten nis.

So she wait ed by the stage door, asked the club for more to ar rive.

She said, “I’d sell my soul to have a taste of a mag nif i cent life.

It’s all mine.

But that’s not what show girls get.

They leave us for dead.”

nev er gon na wan na.” I took her dom, hung them from my neck.

I paid my dues with ev ’ry bruise.

I knew what to ex pect.

Do you wan na

on the ice in They ripped me off like false lash es and then threw me a way.

And all the head shots on the walls of the dance hall are of the bitch es who wish I’d hur ry up and die.

But I’m im mor

tal

now,

ba by dolls.

I could n’t if I tried,

so I say,

“Thank you for the love ly bou quet.

I’m mar ried to the hus tle, and now I know the life of a show girl, babe,

and I’ll nev er know an oth er.

Pain

hid den by the lip stick and lace,

se quins are for ev er.

And now I know the life of a show girl, babe.

Would n’t have it an y oth er way.”

Oh.

Would n’t have it an y oth er way.

(Thank you for the love ly bou

quet.)

Hey, Kit ty,

(thank you for the love ly bou quet.)

Now I’m mak ing mon ey be ing pret ty and wit ty.

Thank you for the

quet.”