Avenues and 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 get's to live too long The avenues and alleyways Where the soul of a man is easy to buy Everybody wheelin', everbody 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 --- Avenues and Alleyways - GBH