Dirty Blvd. Lyrics
Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel
He looks out a window without glass
And the walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet
And his father beats him `cause he`s too tired to beg
He`s got nine brothers and sisters
They`re brought up on their knees
It`s hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs
Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man
But that`s a slim chance
He`s going to the boulevard
He`s gonna end up on the dirty boulevard
He`s going out to the dirty boulevard
He`s going down to the dirty boulevard
This room cost two thousand dollars a month
You can believe it, man, it`s true
Somewhere there`s a landlord`s laughing till he wets his pants
No one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything
They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I`ll piss on `em
That`s what the Statue of Bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses
Let`s club `em to death
And get it over with and just dump `em on the boulevard
He`s gonna end up on the dirty boulevard
He`s going out to the dirty boulevard
He`s going down to the dirty boulevard
Outside it`s a bright night
There`s an opera at Lincoln Center
Movie stars arrive by limousine
The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan
But the lights are out on the mean streets
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A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel
He`s selling plastic roses for a buck
The traffic`s backed up to 39th Street
The TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck
And back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreaming
He`s found a book on Magic in a garbage can
He looks at the pictures
And stares up at the cracked ceiling
"At the count of 3," he says,
"I hope I can disappear"
And fly, fly away from this dirty boulevard
I wanna fly from the dirty boulevard
I wanna fly from the dirty boulevard
I wanna fly, fly, fly, fly from the dirty boulevard
Fly away
I wanna fly away
Fly away
I wanna fly, fly, fly away
I wanna fly away
I wanna fly away
I wanna fly away
I wanna fly away
I wanna fly away
From the dirty boulevard
From the dirty boulevard
I wanna fly
From the dirty boulevard
Fly, fly, fly
