Speaking of chitter chatter:
"Shattered" by the Rollings Stones!
Shattered, shattered
Love and hope and sex and dreams
Are still surviving on the street
Look at me, I`m in tatters!
I`m a shattered
Shattered
Friends are so alarming
My lover`s never charming
Life`s just a cocktail party on the street
Big Apple
People dressed in plastic bags
Directing traffic
Some kind of fashion
Shattered
Laughter, joy, and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex
Look at me, I`m in tatters
I`m a shattered
Shattered
All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter `bout
Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta -- I can`t give it away on 7th Avenue
This town`s been wearing tatters (shattered, shattered)
Work and work for love and sex
Ain`t you hungry for success, success, success, success
Does it matter? (Shattered) Does it matter?
I`m shattered.
Shattered
He knows that tatters (or rags), would be a shmatta (it's also used in the clothing business sarcastically for any clothing, the fancier the better). You posted part of the lyrics, but the other parts I like are where he says:
"Pride and joy and greed and sex
That's what makes our town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams are still surviving on the street
And look at me! (I'm in tatters)
"Don't you know the crime rate's going up, up, up, up, UP?!?!!
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough."
filmat11
-- Modified on 11/21/2008 8:21:04 AM
Here's some interesting laws...
In the quiet town of Connorsville, Wisconsin, it's illegal for a man to shoot off a gun when his female partner has an orgasm.
It's against the law in Willowdale, Oregon, for a husband to curse during sex.
In Oblong, Illinois, it's punishable by law to make love while hunting or fishing on your wedding day.
No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth.
Warn your hubby that after lovemaking in Ames, Iowa, he isn't allowed to take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with you or holding you in his arms.
Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundown- if they're nude. (Apparently, if you wear socks, you're safe from the law!)
In hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, every room is required to have twin beds. And the beds must always be a minimum of two feet apart when a couple rents a room for only one night. And it's illegal to make love on the floor between the beds!
The owner of every hotel in Hastings, Nebraska, is required to provide each guest with a clean and pressed nightshirt. No couple, even if they are married, may sleep together in the nude. Nor may they have sex unless they are wearing one of these clean, white cotton nightshirts.
An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store's walk-in-meat freezer!
In Norfolk, Virginia, a woman can't go out without wearing a corset. (There was a civil-service job- for men only- called a corset inspector.)
However, in Merryville, Missouri, women are prohibited from wearing corsets because "the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male."
