From the peninsula we stare across the bay
From the peninsula we talk of yesterday
Of the parties that are over - And who the midnight boys took home
And now I sit and watch street walkers - standing next to a pay phone

She took a moonlight swim - She glides across the bay
We took a motorcar - Said we'd meet you half way
And we waited for an hour - And they searched the whole next day
But they never found nobody - Some parties just end up that way

When you go out with a bad girl - You do things you thought you wouldn't do - When you go out with a bad boy - You do things you thought you couldn't do - You thought you wouldn't do

Like a crystal ship, the poet's words will stay
Like a teenage nymph, he gave too much away
They use to find him in the morning
With his head held in his hands - And he'd be crying about Lolita
He said is anybody gonna understand
He'd talk of Indians - He said they never lost their way
But with us white men - The magic can just fade away
Some say the opium drove him crazy
Some say the Beaujolais drove him insane
But there's an Indian girl named Lolita - dancing in Mexico in steaming rain

When you go out with a bad girl - You do things you thought you wouldn't do - When you go out with a bad boy - You do things you thought you couldn't do - You thought you wouldn't do

There's not a word of truth - in anything I say
But I can't tell a lie - I was brought up that way
All these stories have no meaning - Except for what you can see
Of party girls and broken poets - They're not too different from you and me.

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