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

(Ooh, 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-less 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

And uptown you cater to a million whores

You disinfect terrazzo on your 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

You live (downtown)