It’s A Long Way Down

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Born in a brothel And thrown from my slave ship Drink from a bottle Smashed on a pavement South Side Chicago Breeds generations Drop on down, kiss the ground Zero raised in Bricks rain down on sidewalks Children rain from projects Strobe light over low lights Pistol flashes through old fishing nets Siren only sings one song And can't sing nothing new Look out son, rooftop perch Like gargoyles for the view [Verse 2] Sandman asks the ladies for kisses As they walk on by Then asks the men for smokes He can't see the evil eye Rises crippled bicycle Across broken factory lots Makes his bed with daily news And whatever else he's got Steps of hollow heels Echo off the vacant walls The lovers only scream their demons If they speak at all The barber chase's him deadbeat Out his store front with a razor The sooner he gets payback The sooner we'll be safer [Chorus] It's a cold, cold city and a long way down It's a cold, cold city and it's a long way down It's a cold, cold city, it's a long way down The city's getting colder as I make by my house [Verse 3] The longest night I lived through And the day would never come The train car pushed and pulled us strangers Beneath them city slums Man got on, said his plead Passed around a hat When it came to me I told him Wish I'd thought of that Virgin Mary oil spills Is where bootleggers bow You've already said too much Across your tilted brow The woman giving birth In the gypsy cab, she's crazy She pulled a blade out on the driver Told him to do 80 [Chorus] They say it's a cold, cold city and it's a long way down It's a cold, cold city and it's a long way down It's a cold, cold city, it's a long way down The city's getting colder from what I found