Stepping Out Lyrics - Me First And The Gimme Gimmes

What good is sitting alone in your room? 

Come hear the music play 

Life is a cabaret, old chum 

Come to the cabaret 

Put down the knitting, the book and the broom 

It's time for a holiday 

Life is a cabaret, old chum 

Come to the cabaret 

Come taste the wine, come hear the band 

Come blow that horn, start celebrating 

Right this way, your table's waiting 

No use permitting some prophet of doom 

To wipe every smile away 

Life is a cabaret, old chum 

Come to the cabaret 

I used to have a girlfriend known as Elsie 

With whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea 

She wasn't what you call a blushing flower 

As a matter of fact she rented by the hour 

The day she dies the neighbors came to snicker 

Well that's what comes of too much pills and liquor 

But when I saw her laid up like a queen 

She was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen 

And as for me, as for me 

I made my mind up back in Chelsea 

When I go, I'm going like Elsie 

Stop by admitting from cradle to tomb 

It's such a long, long smile 

Life is a cabaret, old chum 

Come to the cabaret 

What good is sitting alone in your room? 

Come hear the music play 

Life is a cabaret, old chum 

Come to the cabaret 

Life is a cabaret, old chum 

Come to the caba, come in the caba 

I love a cabaret