Soap box preacher standing on a And all the they would gather round You speak of faith with a of glory But those that fear, they wanna you down
knows where you live Where do you go in the naked All of the prophets, they before you They can hear your cry
When out there in the night all alone you're staring in the light 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 rapture you by"
Heard a bugle blowing in the misty What a haunting sound Times Square of the ghost of 52nd Street Looked out the door but no one was
Out in the cold Harlem I searching for this minstrel man me a song to ease the pain With the Army Band
When you're out there on the dark all When sleeping in the park at the end of the road
In those proud shoes, coming on up the In those proud shoes, all over the sky Then he his hat just like Don Quixote And said, "Don't let the rapture you by"
In the neon wilderness and the jungle He carries his cross of Through the wreckage and the
In those shoes, coming on up the alley In proud shoes, walks all over the sky Then he tipped his hat like Don Quixote And said, "Don't let the rapture, don't let the rapture you by Don't let it you by Ooh, let it pass you by"