Downtown America Songtext

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