I saw a killer with an eye patch and limp Darken the doorway Of a one time palace, that in 100 years Became a halfway
He never spoke but I knew his name was greed He stole the world with no trace of need And he's taken more lives than anyone could tally Now he's the king of Saturday night Down in paradise alley
Everywhere she goes, the queen of doom She takes her writer Who hands her scripts to read aloud When someone tries to indict her
The forgotten girls of west street knew her name But nobody calls it now, since she lost her fame A lot of lonely men knew her as “Sally” She used to make the dead men grin Down In paradise alley
Assassins in drag are throwing roses To street performers In the bankrupt empire where the mayor hides Out in the corners
Of endless bowels of this graveyard town He breaks every single law he ever laid down Before the whistleblowers all start to rally He's gonna sneak away Back down to paradise alley
Peasants are casting stones wrapped up In pages of the bible Into the windows of the clinic Where they sell you survival
While the queen and the mayor wring their hands for a new day And the loud mouth bells of judgement have no more to say The song of a million souls will sing a finale Where they crucify their time Down in paradise alley
You got a lot guts to show your face Out in the open It's you they blame, haven't you seen the news? You'd better get going
When they find you out, you know they're gonna string you up They're drunk on blood and my friend there's never enough They'll drag your name through the mud of this whole damn valley If you need a place to hide, Go back to paradise alley If you need a place to go my friend Go down to paradise alleyTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.