Lyrics:

It aint easy watchin 6 years
slipping through my picket gate.
Like some wounded dog escapin
through that hole in the kennel fence
The waters boiling, poached eggs waiting
The toast I notice - still on the plate
The queen of diamonds lying face down
Your hidden message makes no sense
Whoever the new mystery man is
Ive got to admit - he knows his business
Youre reading me now From the right to the left
And its coming out just the way you might expect
Chinatown Calculation.
Thats cool with no regrets.
The city seems so cold tnight
and Im a fightin' the feeling that somethings lost
Clinical friends got their cynical bends
Their dialogues on a single track
They say Im sad cause the rube went walkin
well Thats the price .. dont they know love costs?
Sometimes money but mostly the moments
That seem so much a part of the pact
Chorus
It aint easy
watchin 6 years
slipping through my picket gate
Like some wounded dog escapin
through that hole in the kennel fence
I never saw that cold equation algebra behind your face
That wrote me off as a bad transaction
Your abacus spoke deadly sense
Whoever the new mystery man is
Ive got to admit - he knows his business
Youre reading me now From the right to the left
And its coming out just the way you might expect
Chinatown Calculation.
Thats cool with no regrets.
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