Sleep like a baby,<br />
My little lady.<br />
Dream 'till the sunrise, creeps into your eyes,<br />
Dream 'till the sunrise turns on the day.<br />
In the avenues and alleyways,<br />
While you sleep there's a whole world coming alive.<br />
Abel and his brother, fighting one another,<br />
In and out of every dive.<br />
The avenues and alleyways<br />
Where the strong and the quick alone can survive,<br />
Look around the jungle, see the rough and tumble,<br />
Listen to a squealer cry.<br />
Then a little later, in the morning paper,<br />
Read about the way he died.<br />
Wake up my pretty,<br />
Go to the city.<br />
Stay through the daytime, safe in the sunshine,<br />
Stay 'till the daytime turns into night.<br />
The avenues and alleyways<br />
Where a man's gotta' workout which side he's on.<br />
Anyway he chooses, chances are he loses,<br />
No-one get's to live too long.<br />
The avenues and alleyways<br />
Where the soul of a man is easy to buy,<br />
Everybody wheelin', everbody dealin',<br />
All of the low are living a high.<br />
Every city's got 'em, can we ever stop 'em ?<br />
Some of us .. .. are gonna try.