Well Did You Evah! - Deborah Harry, Iggy Pop

Debbie: i have heard, among this clan, you are called the forgotten man.

Iggy: is that what they’re saying?

well, did you evah!

Both: what a swell party this is!

Iggy: and have you heard the story of a boy, a girl, unrequited love?

Debbie: sounds like pure soap opera.

i may cry.

Iggy: aw…

Both: what a swell party this is!

Iggy: what frails!

Debbie: what cocks!

Iggy: what broads!

Debbie: what jocks…

Iggy: what furs!

they’re beautiful!

Debbie: why, i’ve never seen such…

Both: yuppity!

Debbie: neither did i.

Iggy: it’s all just too…

Both: swellegant!

Debbie: this french champagne…

Iggy: (domestic!)

Debbie: so good for the brain.

Iggy: that’s what i was gonna say!

Debbie: well, you know you’re a brilliant fellow.

Iggy: thank you, i am!

Debbie: hehe, drink up jim.

Iggy: so… have you ever been out to l.a.

lately?

Debbie: well no, not recently.

Iggy: well, i went there and had a rent-a-car and all…

Debbie: oh, really?

Iggy: yeah and i got invited to pia’s house… pia zadora’s house…

Debbie: really?

oh.

Iggy: yeah.

Debbie: was it nice?

Iggy: well, i didn’t… i didn’t go!

Debbie: oh!

hehe.

Iggy: it woulda been swell though!

Debbie: shoulda gone!

Iggy: it woulda been elegant!

Debbie: elegant.

Oh wait, look… look who’s coming in now… can you believe it?

Iggy: …i hear they dismantled pickfair.

Debbie: they did.

Iggy: it wasn’t elegant enough.

hehe!

Debbie: yeah.

probably full of termites.

Iggy: yeah.

Both: it’s great!

It’s grand!

Wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wonderland!

La la la la la la la la la la la la la.

We sing so rare, like old camembert.

Iggy: have you heard the dying star — she got bit in the astar bar.

Debbie: sauced again!

well, did you evah…

Both: what a swell party this is!

Have you heard?

It’s in the stars.

Next july we collide with mars.

Well did you evah!

What a swell party.

What a swell party.

What a swellegant elegant, (sm) party…

Debbie: smarty?

Iggy: party… yeah!

Debbie: a smarty party?

Iggy: i am!

a smarty!

i’m pretty smart!

Debbie: you are a smarty for coming to this party.

Iggy: yeah, that’s right!

Debbie: well piss off.

Iggy: hehehe, that’s good!

i like that.