DoesItHaveToBeHuman.com, Matt Glass, Ian Crawford - Skid Row (Downtown) lyrics

Alarm goes off at seven and you start uptown
You put in your eight hours
For the powers that have always been
Til it's five pm

(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 heads flop
In the snow down on skid row

Oh, 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

Uptown you cater to a million whores
You disinfect terrazzo on their
Bathroom floors
The jobs are really menial, you make no bread
And then at five o'clock you head by subway
(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 (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 down here on skid row
He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed
Crust of bread and a job
He treats me like dirt, calls me a slob
Which I am so I live

That's your home address you live

When your life's a mess you live

Where depression's just status Quo downtown

Downtown

Downtown

Down on skid row

Someone show me a way to get out of here
'Cause I constantly pray I'll get
Out of here
Please won't somebody say I'll get
Out of here someone give me my shot, or I'll
Rot here

Show me how and I will, I'll get out of here
I'll start climbing uphill and
Get out of here
Someone tell me I still could get out of here
Someone tell Lady Luck that I'm stuck here!

Gee, it sure would be swell to get
Out of here bid the gutter farewell and get
Out of here i'd move Heaven and Hell to get
Out of skid
I'd do I don't-know-what to get out of skid
But a Hell of a lot to get out of skid
People tell me there's not a way out of skid

Downtown there's no rules for us
Downtown 'Cause it's dangerous
Downtown where the rainbow's just a no-show

Downtown

Downtown

Downtown