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