Alarm goes off at seven
And you start up-town
You put in your eight hours
For the powers
That have always been
(Sing it child)
'Til it's five-pm...
"Then you go..."
Downtown
Where the folks are broke. You go
Downtown
Where your life's a joke. You go
Downtown
Where you buy a token. You go...
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 who*es
You disinfect terrazzo on their bathroom floors
Morning's tribulation, afternoon's a curse
And five o'clock is even worse
"That's when you go..."
(Downtown)
Audrey: Where the guys are drips
(Downtown)
Audrey: Where they rip your slips
(Downtown)
Audrey: Where relationships are no go
Down on Skid Row. Poor, all my life I've always been poor
I keep askin' 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)
Seymour: That's your home address, you live
(Downtown)
Seymour: When your life's a mess, you live
(Downtown)
Seymour: Where depression's just status quo
(Down on Skid Row.)
Seymour: 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 gimmie my shot, or I'll rot here!
(Downtown)
Show me how and I will, I'll get outta here
(There's no rules for us)
(Downtown)
I'll start climbin' up hill and get outta here
('Cause it's dangerous)
(Downtown)
Someone tell me I still could get outta here
(Where there rainbow just doesn't show)
Someone tell lady luck that I'm stuck here!
(When you get...)
(Downtown)
Seymour and Audrey:
Gee it sure would be swell to get outta here
Bid the gutter farewell and get outta here
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
People tell me there's not a way outta Skid
But believe me I gotta get outta Skid
Row!