Dirty Blvd. Lyrics - David Bowie

1 Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel

2 He looks out a window without glass

3 The walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet

4 His father beats him 'cause he's too tired to beg

5 He's got 9 brothers and sisters

6 They're brought up on their knees

7 It's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs

8 Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man

9 But that's a slim chance he's going to the boulevard

10 He's going to end up, on the dirty boulevard

11 He's going out, to the dirty boulevard

12 He's going down, to the dirty boulevard

13 This room cost 2,000 dollars a month

14 You can believe it man it's true

15 Somewhere a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants

16 No one here dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything

17 They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard

18 Give me your hungry, your tired your poor I'll piss on 'em

19 that's what the Statue of Bigotry says

20 Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death

21 And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard

22 Get to end up, on the dirty boulevard

23 Going out, to the dirty boulevard

24 He's going down, on the dirty boulevard

25 Going out

26 Outside it's a bright night

27 there's an opera at Lincoln Center

28 Movie stars arrive by limousine

29 The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan

30 but the lights are out on the Mean Streets

31 A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel

32 He's selling plastic roses for a buck

33 The traffic's backed up to 39th street

34 the TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck

35 And back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreaming

36 He's found a book on magic in a garbage can

37 He looks at the pictures and stares at the cracked ceiling

38 "At the count of 3" he says, "I hope I can disappear"

39 And fly fly away, from this dirty boulevard

40 I want to fly, from dirty boulevard

41 I want to fly, from dirty boulevard

42 I want to fly-fly-fly-fly, from dirty boulevard

43 I want to fly away

44 I want to fly

45 Fly, fly away

46 I want to fly

47 Fly-fly away (Fly a-)

48 Fly-fly-fly (-way, ooohhh...)

49 Fly-fly away (I want to fly-fly away)

50 fly away (I want to fly, wow-woh, no, fly away)