Various Artists - Skid Row Downtown |
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Skid Row Downtown
Various Artists Alarm goes off at seven and you start uptown. You put in your eight hours for the powers that have always been. (Sing it, child.) Till it's five P.M. Then you go downtown where the folks are broke. You go down downtown where your life's a joke. You go downtown, where you buy your toke 'n' you go home to skid row. (Home to skid row.) Downtown where the food is slop. Yes, you go downtown where the cabs don't stop. Downtown, where the hopheads flop in the snow. Down on skid row. Uptown you cater to a million jerks. Uptown you're messengers and mailroom clerks eating all your lunches at the hot dog carts. The bosses take your money and they break your hearts. And uptown you cater to a million whores. You disinfect terrazzo on their bathroom floors. The job's are really menial. You'll make no bread. And then at five o'clock you'll head (by subway) . . . Downtown where the guys are drips. Downtown where they rip your slips. Downtown where relationships are no go. Down on skid row. (Down on skid row). Down on skid row. (Down on skid row). Down on skid row. (Down on skid row). Down on skid row. Poor, all my life I've always been poor. I keep asking God what I'm for, and he tells me "Gee, I'm not sure. Oh, I started life as an orphan, a child of the street here on skid row. Sweep that floor, kid." He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed, crust of bread and a job. Treats me like dirt. Calls me a slob, which I am. So I live downtown. That's your home address. You live downtown when your life's a mess. You live downtown where depressions' jes' status quo. Down on skid row. Someone show me a way to get outa here, Someone gimme my shot or I'll rot here. 'cause I constantly pray I'll get outa here. Please, won't somebody say I'll get outa here. I'll get outa here. Show me how and I will,Downtown, there's no rules for us. I'll start climbin' uphillDowntown, 'cause it's dangerous. and get outa here. Someone tell me I stillDowntown where the rainbow's just a no show. could get outa here. Someone tell lady luckthat I'm stuck here. Gee, it sure would be swelldowntown where the sun don't shine. to get outa here, bid the gutter farewellDowntown past the bottom line. and get outa here. I'd move heaven and hellDowntown. Go ask any wino. He'll know. to get outa skid, I'd do I dunno whatDowntown. to get outa skid, to get outa skid, people tell me there's notDowntown.but a hell of a lotDowntown. a way outa skid, but believe me, I've gotta get outa skid row. I just don't believe that's what is being sung. Da Da day, shoop dachang dasnip da da da da da da daNope, dagood for you,when suddenly, good for you.and without warning, there was this total eclipse of the sun. It got very dark and there was this strange humming sound like something from another world. Dasitting there, whoopAudrey Two.I coulda sworn it hadn't been there before, but the old Chinese man sold it to me anyways, for a dollar ninetySha la la, la la la, la la la loo |
