New Orleans

Nothing to see but everything to hide

Black magic gypsies dancing by the riverside

All things for sale, and that includes your soul

Watch your step or you’ll be stuck way down in the hole

Laughter and liquor dance from the mouth

Smiles and smoke blown in from the south

A city too dirty to ever be clean

Nothing’s what it seems down in New Orleans

Magicians and ministers live off the church

Demons and deacons hang from the same birch

A city where no man says what he means

Nothing’s what it seems down in New Orleans

Peddlers and pedestrians crowd the streets

Hand shakes and headaches with all that you meet

But, oh, how the gold, it gleams

Nothing's what it seems down in New Orleans

Adam’s seed and Eve’s leaves sift all around

Heaven’s souls and Hell’s coals tread the same ground

Quiet and still or you will make a scene

Nothing's what it seems down in New Orleans

Masks and mysteries cover the night

Was it you or do you remember the light

Forgot who you are and the masquerade steams

Nothing’s what it seems down in New Orleans

St. John’s stained glass faces see the dark places hidden in my chest

Fat Tuesday’s beaded enchantment replace the remnant around my neck

Will bourbon be the street my feet choose to meet and drink in

Never has anyone ever had so smooth and sweet a sin

Way down in the hole

Alright, just tonight I will indulge

Secrets will be kept, I’ll not divulge

Who knows where it goes, I’ll wait and see

‘Cause nothing, nothing's what it seems

Stuck down in New Orleans

Nothing to see, but oh so much I’ll hide

Black magic gypsies dancing right by side

All things for sale and that includes my soul

And now my steps have led me way down in the hole