Panic! At The Disco - Skid Row (Downtown) Lyrics
(cover of "Skid Row" from "Little Shop of Horrors" musical)[BRENDON]Alarm goes off at sevenAnd you start uptownYou put in your eight hoursFor the powers that have always beenTill it's five P.M[VOICE]Then You go[DALLON]DowntownWhere the folks are brokeYou go DowntownWhere your life's a jokeYou go DowntownWhen you buy your token, you goHome to Skid Row[ALL](Home to Skid Row)[VOICE]Yes, you go[DALLON]DowntownWhere the cabs don't stopDowntownWhere the food is slopDowntownWhere the hop-heads flop in the snowDown on Skid RowOh, Uptown you cater to a million jerksUptown you're messengers and mailroom clerksEating all your lunches at the hot dog cartsThe bosses take your money and they break your heartsUptown you cater to a million whoresYou disinfect terrazzo on their bathroom floorsThe jobs are really menial you make no breadAnd then at five-o'clock you head......By subway[BRENDON + DALLON]Downtown[BRENDON]Where the guys are drips[IAN + DALLON]Downtown[BRENDON]Where they rip your slips[IAN + DALLON]Downtown[BRENDON]Where relationships are no goDown on Skid Row[DALLON]Down on Skid Row[BRENDON]Down on Skid Row[DALLON]Down on Skid Row[IAN]Down on Skid[ALL]Down on Skid RowDown on Skid Row![IAN]Poor, all my life I've always been poorI keep askin' God what I'm forAnd he tells me, "Gee, I'm not sure""Sweep that floor, kid!"Oh! I started life as an orphan,A child of the street, down here on Skid Row!He took me in, gave me shelterA bed, crust of bread and a jobHe treats me like dirt, calls me a slob,Which I am...So I live[ALL]Downtown[IAN]That's your home address, you live[ALL]Downtown[IAN]When your life's a mess, you live[ALL]Downtown[IAN]Where depression's just status quo[ALL]Down on Skid Row[DALLON]Someone show me a way to get outta here'Cause I constantly pray I'll get outta herePlease won't somebody say I'll get outta hereSomeone gimmie my shot, or I'll rot here(There's no rules for us) Show me how and I will, I'll get outta here(Downtown)('Cause it's dangerous) I'll start climbin' up hill and get outta here(Downtown)(Where there rainbow just doesn't show) Someone tell me I still could get outta hereSomeone tell lady luck that I'm stuck here![DALLON]Gee it sure would be swell to get outta hereBid the gutter farewell and get outta hereI'd move heaven and hell to get outta SkidI'd do I don't know what to get outta Skid[IAN + BRENDON](Downtown)[DALLON]But a hell of a lot to get outta Skid[IAN + BRENDON](Downtown)[DALLON]People tell me there's not a way outta Skid[IAN + BRENDON](Downtown)[DALLON]But believe me I gotta get outta Skid[ALL]Row!
