The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

And the lamb lies down on Broadway

Early morning Manhattan

Ocean winds blow on the land

Movie-Palace is now undone

The all-night watchmen had their fun

Sleepin' cheaply on the midnight show

It's the same old ending

Time to go

Get out

It seems they cannot leave their dream

There's somethin' movin' in the sidewalk steam

And the lamb lies down on Broadway

Nighttime's flyers feel their pains

Drugstore take down the chains

Metal motion comes in bursts

The gas station can quench that thirst

Suspension cracked on unmade road

The trucker's eyes read 'Overload'

And out on the subway

Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid

Exits into daylight, spraygun hid

And the lamb lies down on Broadway

The lamb seems right out of place

Yet the Broadway street scene finds a focus in its face

Somehow it's lyin' there

Brings a stillness to the air

Though man-made light, at night is very bright

There's no whitewash victim

As the neons dim, to the coat of white

Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid

Wipes his gun, he's forgotten what he did

And the lamb lies down on Broadway

Suzanne tired her work all done

Thinks money, honey, be on, neon

Cabman's velvet glove sounds the horn

And the sawdust king spits out his scorn

Wonder women you can draw your blind

Don't look at me, I'm not your kind

I'm Rael

Somethin' inside me has just begun

Lord knows what I have done

And the lamb lies down on Broadway (on Broadway)

On Broadway (on Broadway)

On Broadway (on Broadway)

On Broadway (on Broadway)