Cocaine and quiet beers
Sweet candy and caramel
Pass the time and dry the tears
On a street called buy and sell

Life turns like the endless sea
Death tolls like a vespar bell
Children laugh and lovers dream
On a street called buy and sell

Ladies dress Calico style, beware your heart
And the men walk shamelessly, aimlessly by
Cinders in the daylight, junkyards in the sky

Buy and sell
Sell my goods to buy my roof, my bed, my bed

Two pennies will buy a rose
Three pennies and who can tell
On the street that comes and goes
By the name of buy and sell

Buy and sell
Sell my goods to buy my roof, my bed