Little Shop of Horrors - Skid Row (Downtown) (Key: OR Bbmaj)

Title: Skid Row (Downtown)
Format: MP3 Backing Track - Instrumental - Karaoke
Created in the style of: Little Shop of Horrors
Genre: Movie, Musical & Soundtrack; Rock & Soft Rock
Language: English
Era: 1980s
Key: OR Ebmaj
Backing vocals: No
Lyrics: Yes
 
Alarm goes off at seven
And you start uptown
You put in your eight hours
For the powers that have always been
Till it's five P.M.
 
Then you go
 
Downtown
Where the folks are broke
Downtown
Where your life's a joke
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
 
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
Your morning's tribulation, afternoon's a curse
And five o'clock is even worse
 
That's when you go
 
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
 
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
Here on Skid Row
He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed
Crust of bread and a job
Treats me like dirt, calls me a slob
Which I am
So I live
 
Downtown
That's your home address
You live
Downtown
When your life's a mess
You live
Downtown
Where depressions' just Status Quo
Down on Skid Row
 
Someone show me a way to get outta here,
'Cause I constantly pray I'll get outta here
Please, won't somebody say I'll get outta here
Someone gimme my shot or I'll rot here
 
Show me how and I will, I'll get outta here
(Downtown, 'cause it's dangerous) I'll start climbin' uphill and get outta here
(Downtown, where the rainbow's just a no-show) Someone tell me I still could get outta here
Someone tell lady luck that I'm stuck here (when you live)
 
Gee, it sure would be swell to get outta here
(Downtown, past the bottom line) Bid the gutter farewell and get outta here
(Downtown, go ask any wino, he'll know) I'd move heaven and hell to get outta Skid
I'd do I don't know what to get outta Skid
But a hell of a lot to get outta Skid
(Downtown) People tell me there's not a way outta Skid
(Downtown) But believe me, I gotta get outta Skid Row
 
Composer: A. MENKEN/H. ASHMAN (ASCAP/BMI)