Lyrics Skid Row (Downtown) - Soundtrack/Cast Album

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 mail-room 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

Show me how and I will, I'll get outta here (Downtown, there's no rules for us)
I'll start climbing up hill and get outta here (Downtown, 'cause it's dangerous)
Someone tell me I still could get outta here (Downtown, where the rainbow's just a no-show)
Someone tell lady luck that I'm stuck here

Gee, it sure would be swell to get outta here (Downtown, where the sun don't shine)
Bid the gutter farewell and get outta here (Downtown, past the bottom line)
I'd move heaven and he'll to get outta skid (Downtown, go ask any wino, he'll know)
I'd do I dunno what to get outta here
(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