Dirty Blvd. lyrics

Artist  : Lou Reed 
Song : Dirty Blvd.



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 Pedro lives out of the wilshire hotel
He looks out a window without glass
The walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on
his feet
His father beats him ’cause he’s too tired to
beg

He’s got 9 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 going to end up, on the dirty boulevard
He’s going out, to the dirty boulevard
He’s going down, to the dirty boulevard

This room cost 2,000 dollars a month
You can believe it man it’s true
Somewhere a landlord’s laughing till he wets
his pants
No one here 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 to end up, on the dirty boulevard
Going out, to the dirty boulevard
He’s 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’s 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 at the
cracked ceiling
"at the count of 3" he says, "i
hope I can disappear"

And fly fly away, from this dirty boulevard
I want to fly, from dirty boulevard
I want to fly, from dirty boulevard
I want to fly-fly-fly-fly, from dirty boulevard

I want to fly away
I want to fly
Fly, fly away
I want to fly
Fly-fly away (fly a-)
Fly-fly-fly (-way, ooohhh...)
Fly-fly away (I want to fly-fly away)
Fly away (I want to fly, wow-woh, no, fly away)