Skid Row (Downtown)

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 downtown

Where your life's a joke

You go downtown

When you buy your token

You go

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

Your morning's tribulation

Afternoon's a curse

And five o'clock is even worse

That's when you go

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

Sweep that floor, kid"

Oh, I started life as an orphan

A child of the street

Here 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 address, ya live

Downtown

When your life's a mess, ya 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 there's no rules for us

Show me how and I will, I'll get outta here

Downtown 'cause it's dangerous

I'll start climbing up hill and get outta here

Downtown where the rainbow's just a no-show

Someone tell me I still could get outta here

Someone tell Lady Luck that I'm stuck here

When you live

Downtown where the sun don't shine

Gee, it sure would be swell to get outta here

Downtown that's the bottom line

Bid the gutter farewell and get outta here

Downtown go ask any wino, he'll know

I'd move heaven and hell to get outta Skid

I'll do I dunno what to get outta Skid

Downtown

But a hell of a lot to get outta Skid

Downtown

People tell me there's not a way outta Skid

Downtown

But believe me, I gotta get outta

Skid Row