Please

Come over to 81st street I'm in the apartment above the bar

You know can't miss it, it's across from this subway

and the tacky store with the mylar scarves

My skin's as pale as the outdoors moon

My hair's silver like a Tiffany watch

I like lots of people around me but don't kiss hello

and please don't touch

It's a Czechoslovakian custom my mother passed on to me

The way to make friends Andy is invite them up for tea

Open house, open house



I've got a lot of cats, here's my favourite

she's a lady called Sam

I made a paper doll of her - you can have it

That's what I did when I had St. Vitus dance

It's a Czechoslovakian custom my mother passed on to me

Give people little presents so they'll remember me

Open house, open house



Someone bring the vegetables, someone please bring heat

My mother showed up yesterday, we need something to eat

I think I got a job today they want me to draw shoes

The ones I drew were old and used

They told me to draw something new

Open house, open house



Fly me to the moon, fly me to a star

But there are no stars in the New York sky

They're all on the ground

You scared yourself with music, I scared myself with paint

I drew 550 different shoes today

It almost made me faint

Open house, open house