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[ti:Dirty Blvd. (LP Version)] |
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[ar:Lou Reed] |
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[al:New York] |
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Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel |
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He looks out a window without glass |
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And the walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet |
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And his father beats him 'cause he's too tired to beg |
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He's got 9 brothers and sisters |
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They're brought up on their knees |
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It's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs |
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Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man |
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But that's a slim chance |
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He's going to the boulevard |
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He's gonna end up on the dirty boulevard |
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He's going out to the dirty boulevard |
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He's going down to the dirty boulevard |
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This room cost $2,000 a month |
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You can believe it, man, it's true |
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Somewhere there's a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants |
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No one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything |
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They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard |
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Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I'll piss on 'em |
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That's what the Statue of Bigotry says |
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Your poor huddled masses |
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Let's club 'em to death |
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And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard |
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Get 'em out on the dirty boulevard |
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Goin' out to the dirty boulevard |
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They're going down on the dirty boulevard |
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Goin' out |
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Outside it's a bright night |
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There's an opera at Lincoln Center |
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Movie stars arrive by limousine |
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The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan |
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But the lights are out on the mean streets |
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A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel |
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He's selling plastic roses for a buck |
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The traffic's backed up to 39th Street |
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The TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck |
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And back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreaming |
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He's found a book on Magic in a garbage can |
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He looks at the pictures |
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And stares up at the cracked ceiling |
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"At the count of 3," he says, |
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"I hope I can disappear." |
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And fly, fly away from this dirty boulevard |
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I want to fly from the dirty boulevard |
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I want to fly from the dirty boulevard |
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I want to fly-fly-fly-fly from the dirty boulevard |
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I want to fly away |
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I want to fly |
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Fly, fly away |
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I want to fly |
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Fly, fly away |
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Fly, fly away |
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Fly, fly away |
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Fly, fly away |
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I want to fly |
