Il testo della Skid row (downtown)

Soloist:
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...

Company:
"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.
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.
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. (x4)

Seymour:
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!