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