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
Able 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
In the avenues
and alleyways
Where a man's
gotta work out
which side he's on
Any way 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's wheeling
Everybody's stealing
All the low
are living high
Every city's got 'em
Can we ever
stop 'em?
Some of us
are gonna try