Nick Lowe - A Dollar Short Of Happy lyrics

A dollar short of happy Can I get one from you? A dollar short on Christmas Just a smile won't do Standing on the corner with my dog named Blue She don't know it's Christmas So it's down to you City sidewalks Busy sidewalks Turn a darker gray Than any Russian playwright would allow Although it's been said Many times, many ways I'm a dollar short of happy now You pulled up to the light The phone up to your ear The deal has fallen through Your job has gone An unfamiliar look of pain On your face then did appear How you gonna tell the folks at home? No more private schools Or exercise machines No more crazy nannies getting high in the S.U.V Meet me on the corner We'll get along somehow A dollar short of happy now Meet me on the corner We'll rub along somehow A dollar short of happy now