Avenues & Alleyways

Sleep like a baby, my little lady
Dream 'till the sunrise, creeps into your eyes
Dream 'till the sunrise turns on the day

In the avenues and alleyways
While you sleep there's a whole world coming alive
Abel and his brother, fighting one another
In and out of every dive

The avenues and alleyways

Where the strong and the quick alone can survive
Look around the jungle, see the rough and tumble
Listen to a squealer cry

Then a little later, in the morning paper
Read about the way he died

Wake up my pretty, go to the city
Stay through the daytime, safe in the sunshine
Stay 'till the daytime turns into night

The avenues and alleyways

Where a man's gotta' workout which side he's on
Anyway he chooses, chances are he loses
No one gets to live too long

The avenues and alleyways

Where the soul of a man is easy to buy
Everybody wheelin', everybody dealin'
All of the low are living a high
Every city's got 'em, can we ever stop 'em?
Some of us are gonna try