Wandering down 5th avenue
Fashion only stops for a cigarette
Diamonds shine for nobody but you

N train 6 train underground
You come back up and the rain comes down
I’m so damn broke but then again
What’s new

The drug doesn’t work no more
Spend a lifetime living on the 5th floor
Of a walk up apartment in the downtown scene

I did my time (I did my time)
In the City (I did my time)
My bones are weak but my skin is thick
I did my time (I did my time)
In the City (I did my time)
Now let the sun shine through the mortar and brick mortar and brick mortar and brick

Crosstown traffic makes me blue
The stories in the paper they do too
Meet me at the bar and tell me what went wrong

We roll around like old lost souls
Holding up lamp posts, telephone poles
Drinking on the rooftop barely holding on

The drug doesn’t work no more
Spend a lifetime living on the 5th floor
Of a walk up apartment in the downtown scene

I did my time (I did my time)
In the City (I did my time)
My bones are weak but my skin is thick
I did my time (I did my time)
In the City (I did my time)
Now let the sun shine through the mortar and brick mortar and brick mortar and brick

Oh All Alone
In this gray gray town
Someones on the corner blowing on a saxophone
I’m sick & tired
But you can’t come down
Living with a heart of stone

It’s in my blood & on my clothes
Oil slicks & busted roads
Broken hearted washed up & misused

Ludlow, Bleecker, Bowery
New York Moans like a symphony
A sonata that plays for nobody but me

The drug doesn’t work no more
Spend a lifetime living on the 5th floor
Of a walk up apartment in the downtown scene