These words are transcribed without permission the way they appear in the "My Early Burglary Years" album. Additions to the printed lyrics are in darker text while omissions are striken out.

I'm calling you from the foyer
of the Sands Hotel
Where the men and the women
are acquainted quite well
and the drunkards
keep on drinking
and oh my room is cold
I'm disputing the bill
I will sleep in my clothes

And oh, you my invalid friend
you slam the receiver when you say
"If I had your limbs for a day
I would steam away" ¹

I'm calling you from the foyer
of the Sands Hotel this awful hotel
Where the slime and the grime gel
And I cannot - or, I do not
And oh my room is cold
And I'm envying you
never having to choose

And oh, you my invalid friend
You slam the receiver when you say
"If I had your limbs for a day
I would steam away" ²

I'm calling you from the foyer
of this awful hotel the Sands Hotel
It's not low-life, it's just people
having a good time
And oh, my invalid friend
oh, my invalid friend
In our different ways we are
the same.

 

² On the song's only ever live performance Morrissey sang "If I had your limbs for a day, Christ! I'd steal away".