| Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel
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| He looks out a window without glass
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| And the walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet
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| And his father beats him 'cause he’s too tired to beg
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| He’s got nine 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
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| He’s going to the boulevard
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| He’s gonna 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 two thousand dollars a month
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| You can believe it, man, it’s true
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| Somewhere there’s a landlord’s laughing till he wets his pants
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| No one 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
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| 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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| He’s gonna 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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| 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
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| And stares up at the cracked ceiling
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| «At the count of 3,"he says,
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| «I hope I can disappear»
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| And fly, fly away from this dirty boulevard
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| I wanna fly from the dirty boulevard
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| I wanna fly from the dirty boulevard
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| I wanna fly, fly, fly, fly from the dirty boulevard
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| Fly away
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| I wanna fly away
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| Fly away
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| I wanna fly, fly, fly away
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| I wanna fly away
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| I wanna fly away
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| I wanna fly away
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| I wanna fly away
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| I wanna fly away
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| From the dirty boulevard
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| From the dirty boulevard
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| I wanna fly
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| From the dirty boulevard
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| Fly, fly, fly |