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Alarm goes off at seven
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And you start uptown.
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You put in your eight hours
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For the powers that have always been.
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Till it's five P.M.
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Then you go...
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Downtown
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Where the folks are broke. You go
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Downtown
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Where your life's a joke. You go
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Downtown
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Where you buy a token.
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Then you go
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Home to Skid Row.
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Home to Skid Row.
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Yes you go...
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Downtown
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Where the cabs don't stop.
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Downtown
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Where the food is slop.
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Downtown
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Where the hop-heads flop in the snow...
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Down on Skid Row
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Uptown you cater to a million jerks.
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Uptown you're messengers and
mailroom clerks
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eating all your lunches at the
hot dog carts.
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The bosses take your money
And they break your hearts.
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Uptown you cater to a million whores.
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You disinfect terrazzo on their
bathroom floors.
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The jobs are really menial you make no bread
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And then at five-o'clock you head...
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...By subway
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Downtown
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Where the guys are drips
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Downtown
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Where they rip your slips
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Downtown
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Where relationships are no go
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Down on Skid Row
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Down on Skid Row
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Down on Skid
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Down on Skid Row
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Poor
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all my life I've always been poor
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I keep askin' God what I'm for
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And he tells me, "Gee, I'm not sure"
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"Sweep that floor, kid!"
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Oh! I started life as an orphan,
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A child of the street, down here on Skid Row!
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He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed,
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crust of bread and a job
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treats me like dirt, calls me a slob,
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Which I am...
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So I live
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Downtown
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That's your home address, you live
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Downtown
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When your life's a mess, you live
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Downtown
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Where depression's just status quo
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Down on Skid Row
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Someone show me a way to get outta here
Down on Skid Row
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Someone show me a way to get outta here
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'Cause I constantly pray I'll get outta here
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Please won't somebody say I'll get outta here
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Someone gimmie my shot, or I'll rot here!
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(Downtown - There's no rules for us)
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Show me how and I will, I'll get outta here
(Downtown - There's no rules for us)
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Show me how and I will, I'll get outta here
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(Downtown - 'Cause it's dangerous)
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I'll start climbin' up hill and get outta here
(Downtown - 'Cause it's dangerous)
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(Downtown - 'Cause it's dangerous)
(Downtown - Where there rainbow just doesn't show)
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(Downtown - Where there rainbow just doesn't show)
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Someone tell me I still could get outta here
(Downtown - Where there rainbow just doesn't show)
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(Downtown - Where there rainbow just doesn't show)
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Someone tell lady luck that I'm stuck here!
(Downtown - Where there rainbow just doesn't show)
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Someone tell lady luck that I'm stuck here!
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Gee it sure would be swell to get outta here
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Bid the gutter farewell and get outta here
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I'd move heaven and hell to get outta Skid
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I'd do I don't know what to get outta Skid
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But a hell of a lot to get outta Skid
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People tell me there's not a way outta Skid
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But believe me I gotta get outta Skid
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Row!