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