@rikdad I think you nailed it. She's not a hooker, but to him she acted just like one by the way she stole his heart.
A couple other notes:
This is her latest trick... meaning that she's done this before. There is perhaps an undercurrent of self-loathing in the sense of "How stupid am I to let her do this to me again?"
This song is full of musical imagery:
"You played robbery with insolence
And I played the blues in twelve bars down Lover's Lane"
-- He's sad / bemoaning this situation, so he plays The Blues about Lover's Lane
-- ...in twelve bars - 12 bar blues is the most famous / common blues progression
"And you never did have the intelligence to use
The twelve keys hanging off from my chain"
-- The insult says that if she had been smart, she could have taken much more.
-- The twelve keys - there are exactly 12 musical keys that music can be played in
-- Hanging off of my chain - he is shackled to the life of a musician
The last segment is a reflection on the situation:
"Now it's past last call for alcohol
Past recall has been here and gone
The landlord he finally paid us all
The satin jazzmen have put away their horns"
After last call, the customers leave and the band waits to get paid (by the landlord). Past recall are his reflections while performing; a musician leaves a part of himself and his experiences behind on the stage with each performance. He characterizes the band as 'the satin jazzmen' who are now finished for the night.
His imagery finishes with a final, dual reflection on the situation: she's gone, and the music has ended ('there's nothing left')
"And we're standing outside of this wonderland
Looking so bereaved and so bereft
Like a bowery bum when he finally understands
The bottle's empty and there's nothing left"
@rikdad I think you nailed it. She's not a hooker, but to him she acted just like one by the way she stole his heart.
A couple other notes:
"You played robbery with insolence And I played the blues in twelve bars down Lover's Lane"
-- He's sad / bemoaning this situation, so he plays The Blues about Lover's Lane -- ...in twelve bars - 12 bar blues is the most famous / common blues progression
"And you never did have the intelligence to use The twelve keys hanging off from my chain"
-- The insult says that if she had been smart, she could have taken much more. -- The twelve keys - there are exactly 12 musical keys that music can be played in -- Hanging off of my chain - he is shackled to the life of a musician
"Now it's past last call for alcohol Past recall has been here and gone The landlord he finally paid us all The satin jazzmen have put away their horns"
After last call, the customers leave and the band waits to get paid (by the landlord). Past recall are his reflections while performing; a musician leaves a part of himself and his experiences behind on the stage with each performance. He characterizes the band as 'the satin jazzmen' who are now finished for the night.
His imagery finishes with a final, dual reflection on the situation: she's gone, and the music has ended ('there's nothing left')
"And we're standing outside of this wonderland Looking so bereaved and so bereft Like a bowery bum when he finally understands The bottle's empty and there's nothing left"