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