|
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 'til 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 |
|
Get 'em out on the dirty boulevard |
|
Goin' out to the dirty boulevard |
|
They're going down on the dirty boulevard |
|
Goin' out |
|
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 |
|
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 want to fly from the dirty boulevard |
|
I want to fly from the dirty boulevard |
|
I want to fly-fly-fly-fly from the dirty boulevard |
|
I want to fly away |
|
I want to fly |
|
Fly, fly away |
|
I want to fly |
|
Fly, fly away |
|
Fly, fly away |
|
Fly, fly away |
|
Fly, fly away |
|
I want to fly |