She lives on Pony St.

And they should scatter flowers at her feet

But when they come calling I think it's appalling

They're sober and they're polite

They're deeply respectful when I would expect them

To keep her out all night



That little martinet

Will get her own way yet

If you need instruction in mindless destruction

I'll show you a thing or two

You used to adore me but now my life flashes before me

For you to view



Oh mother, oh mother, sometimes you are so mortifying

>From the hole in your leopard-skin tights I can tell you've been spying

But your generation confesses before it transgresses

Those Super-8 movies of daddy in your disco dresses



If you're going out tonight

I won't wait up

Reading _Das Kapital_

Watching Home Shopping Club

While you're flogging a dead horse

All the way down Pony St.

Where you live after a fashion

All the way down Pony St.

We're laughing at some favorite indiscression

That lives on, that lives on, that lives on

Pony Street



Daughter, oh daughter, you know I will love you forever

Spare me the white ankle socks with the lace and the leather

But you and your cartoon threat do no good to resist me

For I am the genuine thing but to you its just history



If you're going out tonight

How can you be sure

Where you lay your pretty head

Mother may have come before

So you're flogging a dead horse

All the way down Pony St.

Where you live after a fashion

All the way down Pony St.

We're laughing a some favorite indiscression

That lives on (x5)

She lives on Pony Street (x2)

She lives on, she lives on (x2