Dirty Blvd. - 2020 Remaster

Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel
 He looks out a window without glass
 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
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 This room cost $2,000 dollars a month
 You can believe it, man, it's true
 Somewhere 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
 Going out to the dirty boulevard
 They're going down on the dirty boulevard
 Going 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 is 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 three," he says, "I hope I can disappear"
 And fly, fly away from this dirty boulevard
 I want to fly from dirty boulevard
 I wanna fly from dirty boulevard
 I want to fly, fly, fly, fly from dirty boulevard
 I wanna fly away
 I wanna fly
 Fly, fly away
 I wanna fly
 Fly, fly away
 (Fly, fly, fly away) fly, fly away (fly it all away)
 (Fly, fly, fly away) fly, fly away
 (Fly, fly, fly away) fly away (I wanna fly away)
 (Fly, fly, fly away) I wanna fly, I'm gonna fly away