[ti:Dirty Blvd. (LP Version)]
[ar:Lou Reed]
[al:New York]
[00:03.96]Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel
[00:18.21]He looks out a window without glass
[00:20.65]And the walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet
[00:26.62]And his father beats him 'cause he's too tired to beg
[00:29.16]
[00:29.86]He's got 9 brothers and sisters
[00:32.39]They're brought up on their knees
[00:34.54]It's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs
[00:38.43]Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man
[00:42.06]But that's a slim chance
[00:43.96]He's going to the boulevard
[00:45.55]
[00:46.05]He's gonna end up on the dirty boulevard
[00:50.23]He's going out to the dirty boulevard
[00:53.27]He's going down to the dirty boulevard
[00:57.30]
[00:57.89]This room cost $2,000 a month
[01:04.27]You can believe it, man, it's true
[01:05.87]Somewhere there's a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants
[01:08.16]No one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything
[01:12.64]They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard
[01:15.63]
[01:16.73]Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I'll piss on 'em
[01:21.11]That's what the Statue of Bigotry says
[01:23.60]Your poor huddled masses
[01:26.99]Let's club 'em to death
[01:28.53]And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard
[01:30.78]
[01:31.53]Get 'em out on the dirty boulevard
[01:36.10]Goin' out to the dirty boulevard
[01:40.24]They're going down on the dirty boulevard
[01:44.47]Goin' out
[01:46.12]
[01:46.91]Outside it's a bright night
[01:51.18]There's an opera at Lincoln Center
[01:52.58]Movie stars arrive by limousine
[01:55.46]The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan
[02:00.04]But the lights are out on the mean streets
[02:02.88]
[02:04.37]A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel
[02:07.47]He's selling plastic roses for a buck
[02:10.25]The traffic's backed up to 39th Street
[02:14.23]The TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck
[02:18.81]
[02:19.93]And back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreaming
[02:22.82]He's found a book on Magic in a garbage can
[02:27.46]He looks at the pictures
[02:28.96]And stares up at the cracked ceiling
[02:31.54]"At the count of 3," he says,
[02:33.83]"I hope I can disappear."
[02:35.20]
[02:35.45]And fly, fly away from this dirty boulevard
[02:39.38]I want to fly from the dirty boulevard
[02:43.07]I want to fly from the dirty boulevard
[02:47.40]I want to fly-fly-fly-fly from the dirty boulevard
[02:51.04]
[02:51.49]I want to fly away
[02:54.57]I want to fly
[02:58.35]Fly, fly away
[03:00.79]I want to fly
[03:03.83]Fly, fly away
[03:07.82]Fly, fly away
[03:09.62]Fly, fly away
[03:14.46]Fly, fly away
[03:17.89]I want to fly