Lou Reed Ladies Pay song lyrics

All the sailors they're all home from leave

And everybody's waiting for them to try to deceive

The storekeepers have drawn their lace curtains bare

And all the women and the wee young girls all waiting there

Oh, but how the ladies pay

Oh, if they only knew how the ladies pay

Yeah now, how the ladies pay

Oh, when the men they've gone away

Nobody is standing on upon the door

And nobody is feeding any of the poor

The poor sick soldier lies in bed beside his girl

Thinking of another place on the other side of the world

ah

How the ladies pay

Oh-oh, oh, how the ladies pay

When the men they've gone away

Oh, I wish I knew how the ladies pay

Day and night, night and day

how the ladies pay

Day and night, night and day

how the ladies pay

Day and night

night and day

Day and night

day and night, night and day, ladies pay now

Night and day, day and night

how the ladies pay

Day and night, night and day

how the ladies pay

Day and night now

night and day and now

How the pay now

oh, how the pay now

Ladies pay, ladies pay

ah, ladies pay the way now

Ladies pay, ah, ladies pay

ah, ladies pay

Night and day, night and day, night and day

oh, how the ladies pay

Oh, night and day, night and day, night and day

oh, how the ladies pay