On the Avenue

[Verse 1] Everybody's walkin' through the city all alone And no one talks about it I am just a simple, unassumin' kind of man So neither do I But I walk like the rest and I try to do my best Till I'm beaten, till I'm blue And it shines like the sun inside of everyone Like the neon that I see In the rain on the avenue [Verse 2] Everybody's dreamin' 'bout a city in the sky Where we can live without love I am just a simple, unassumin' kind of guy So, so do I But to feed you from a shell, fill you up and wish you well That's my reason, it's what I do And it shines in the guise of Egyptian sparkling eyes In the basement of a hotel Paradise on the avenue [Bridge] And if the hotel burns down We'd probably drown 'neath the firemen's hoses Holy Moses! [Verse 3] I would still believe that paradise Was there with you Never blue, stuck like glue On the avenue