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Skid Row (Downtown) [From 'Little Shop of Horrors']
Alarm goes off at seven And you start uptown. You put in your eight hours For the powers that have always been. 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. 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! Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com 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 depressions' 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 give me my shot or I'll rot here Show me how and I will I'll get out of here I'll start climbing up hill to get out of here Someone tell me I still can get outta here Someone tell Lady Luck that I'm stuck here Gee, it sure would be swell to get outta here Bid The Gutter farewell and get outta here I'd move Heaven and Hell to get outta skid I'd do I don't know what to get out of skid Quite 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 outa skid Row!
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