Soap box preacher standing on a And all the people they would gather You speak of faith with a of glory But those that fear, they knock you down
Nobody knows you live do you go in the naked night? All of the prophets, come before you They can your lonesome cry
When out there in the night all alone When you're in the light at the end of the road
In those proud shoes, on up the alley In proud shoes, walks all over the sky he tipped his hat just like Don Quixote And said, "Don't let the rapture you by"
Heard a bugle blowing in the misty What a haunting sound Times Square Heard of the ghost of 52nd Looked out the door but no one was
Out in the Harlem rain I went searching for this man Played me a song to ease the the Salvation Army Band
When you're out there on the all alone you're sleeping in the park at the end of the road
In those shoes, coming on up the alley In those proud shoes, all over the sky Then he tipped his hat just Don Quixote And said, "Don't let the pass you by"
In the neon and the asphalt jungle He his cross of passion Through the wreckage and the
In those proud shoes, coming on up the In those proud shoes, all over the sky Then he tipped his hat like Don Quixote And said, "Don't let the rapture, don't let the pass you by Don't let it you by Ooh, let it pass you by"