Alarm goes off at seven and you start uptown You put in the 8 hours for the power that has always been ‘Til it’s 5 pm
Then you go Downtown Where the folks are broke You go downtown Where your life’s a joke You go downtown When you buy your toke And you go home, home to Skid Row (home to Skid Row) Yes, you go
Downtown Where the cabs don’t stop Downtown Where the food is slop Downtown Where the hop-heads 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
Uptown you cater to a million whores You disinfect terrazzo on their bathroom floors The jobs are really menial you make no bread And then at five-o'clock you head
But somewhere
Downtown Where the guys are drips Downtown Where they rip your slips Downtown Where relationships are no go
Down on Skid Row! x4
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. Sweep that floor, kid”
Oh, I started life as an orphan, a child of the street Down on Skid Row 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 adress, you live Downtown When your life’s a mess, you live Downtown Where depression’s just Status Quo Down on Skid Row
Someone show me a way to get outta here Cause I constantly pray I’ll get outta here Please, won’t somebody say I’ll get outta here Someone gimme my shot or I’ll rot here
(Downtown) Show me how and I will, I’ll get out of here (Downtown) I’ll start climbing uphill and get out of here (Downtown) Someone tell me I still could get outta here Someone tell lady Luck tha I’m stuck here
Gee, it sure would be swell to get out of here Bid the gutter farewell and get out of here I’d move Heaven and Hell to get outta Skid I’d do I don’t know what to get out of Skid
But a Hell of a lot to get out of Skid People tell me there’s not a way out of Skid But believe me I gotta get out of Skid Row!Teksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
