Skid Row (Downtown) [From "Little Shop of Horrors"]

Skid Row(Downtown) - Original Cast/Soundtrack/The New Musical Cast

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

"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

"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

And Uptown you cater

To a million whores

You disinfect terrazzo

On their bathroom floors

The jobs are really menial

You make no bread

And then at five-o'clock you head

"By subway "

Downtown

Where the guys are drips

Downtown

Where they rip your slips

Downtown

Where relationships are no go

Down on Skid Row

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 and

Calls me a slob

Which I am

So I live

Downtown

That's your home address you live

Downtown

When your life's a mess you live

Downtown

Where depression's just status quo

Down on Skid Row

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 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

Someone tell lady luck

That I'm stuck here

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