LOU REED - Dirty Blvd. lyrics

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Pedro lives out of the wilshire hotel<br>He looks out a window without glass<br>The walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet<br>His father beats him 'cause he's too tired to beg<br><br>He's got 9 brothers and sisters<br>They're brought up on their knees<br>It's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs<br>Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man<br>But that's a slim chance he's going to the boulevard<br><br>He's going to end up, on the dirty boulevard<br>He's going out, to the dirty boulevard<br>He's going down, to the dirty boulevard<br><br>This room cost 2,000 dollars a month<br>You can believe it man it's true<br>Somewhere a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants<br>No one here dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything<br>They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard<br><br>Give me your hungry, your tired your poor I'll piss on 'em<br>That's what the statue of bigotry says<br>Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death<br>And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard<br><br>Get to end up, on the dirty boulevard<br>Going out, to the dirty boulevard<br>He's going down, on the dirty boulevard<br>Going out<br><br>Outside it's a bright night<br>There's an opera at lincoln center<br>Movie stars arrive by limousine<br>The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of manhattan<br>But the lights are out on the mean streets<br><br>A small kid stands by the lincoln tunnel<br>He's selling plastic roses for a buck<br>The traffic's backed up to 39th street<br>The tv whores are calling the cops out for a suck<br><br>And back at the wilshire, pedro sits there dreaming<br>He's found a book on magic in a garbage can<br>He looks at the pictures and stares at the cracked ceiling<br>At the count of 3 he says, I hope I can disappear<br><br>And fly fly away, from this dirty boulevard<br>I want to fly, from dirty boulevard<br>I want to fly, from dirty boulevard<br>I want to fly-fly-fly-fly, from dirty boulevard<br><br>I want to fly away<br>I want to fly<br>Fly, fly away<br>I want to fly<br>Fly-fly away (fly a-)<br>Fly-fly-fly (-way, ooohhh...)<br>Fly-fly away (I want to fly-fly away)<br>Fly away (I want to fly, wow-woh, no, fly away)