[Debbie Harry (DH)]
I have heard among this clan
You are called the forgotten man

[Iggy Pop (IP)]
Is that what they're saying?
Well, did you evah?

[Both]
What a swell party this is!

[IP]
And have you heard the story of
A boy, a girl, unrequited love?

[DH]
Sounds like pure soap opera
I may cry

[Both]
What a swell party this is!

[IP]
What frills
[DH]
What cocks
[IP]
What broads
[DH]
What jocks
[IP]
What furs, they’re beautiful
[DH]
Why I've never seen such
[IP]
Yuppity
[DH]
Neither did I
[IP]
It's all just too..
[Both]
Swelegant!

[DH]
This french champagne
[IP]
Domestic
[DH]
So good for the brain
[IP]
That’s what I was going to say
[DH]
Well, you know, you're a brilliant fellow
[IP]
Thank you, I am!
[DH]
Drink up, Jim

[IP]
So, have you ever been out to L.A. lately?
[DH]
Oh, no, not recently
[IP]
I went there, I had a rent-a-car and all
[DH]
Oh really?
[IP]
Yeah, and I got invited to Pia's house
Pia Zadora's house
[DH]
Really?
[IP]
Yeah
[DH]
Was it nice?
[IP]
Well, I didn't go
[DH]
OH
[IP]
It would have been swell, though
[DH]
Should have gone
[IP]
It would have been elegant
[DH]
Elegant
Oh wait
Look, look who's coming in now
Can you believe it?
[IP]
I hear they dismantled Pickfair
[DH]
They did
[IP]
It wasn't elegant enough
[DH]
Yeah
[IP]
(Laughing)
[DH]
Probably full of termites
[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 laaaa
We sing, so rare
Like old Camembert!

[IP]
Have you heard that Diane Starr
She got bit in the Astor bar?
[DH]
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, party!

[DH]
A smartie
[IP]
A party
[DH]
A smartie party?
[IP]
I am a smartie
[DH]
You are a smartie
[IP]
I'm pretty smart
[DH]
To come to this party
[IP]
That’s right
[DH]
Well, piss off
[IP]
That's good, I like that one