Downtown America Songtext

von Dave Sharp

I'm staring straight up from the sidewalk
At the stars high above me tonight
Those stars were made for you and me
But they're no longer shining so bright
At the crossroad down by the traffic lights
There's a man dressed in tatters and rags
He says God bless you now I'll work for food
I've been to Vietnam and back with the draft

Well they say that's life in Downtown America
And you live it as best as you can
It's time time to believe in Downtown America
Every woman every child every man

At the mission shelter in midtown
There's an old timer wastin' away
Says I've been rolled 18 times in the past 6 weeks
And they'll get to me one of these days
And sister Suzanne works the nightshift there
She's bust trying to figure out how
All the applause of the electronic town halls
Is gonna heave the industrial plough

Well they say that's life in Downtown America
And you live it as best as you can
It's time time to believe in Downtown America
Every woman every child every man
We'll be together in the Promised Land

Now I've listened to words spoke in high places
They say the new world will come in good time
They'll speak of renewed hope and glory
And I'll swallow it down like red wine
Don't it feel like the union is driftin'
The excuses are all growin' old
I'll take any man here out to the parking lot now
Tries tellin' me that isn't so

They say that's life in Downtown America
And you live it as best as you can
It's time time to believe in Downtown America
Every woman every child every man
And be together in the Promised Land
Say a prayer for the common man