Dirty Boulevard

[thetworegs]

Here's my contribution to the Lou Reed Fest from the New York album..the lyrics to this one have always hit a nerve........hope you enjoy!

Dirty Boulevard
Pedro lives out of the Wiltshire Hotel
He looks out a window without glass
The walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet
His father beats him 'cos he's too tired to beg..
He's got 9 brothers and sisters, they're brought up on their knees
Its hard to run when a coat-hanger beats you on the thighs
Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man
But thats a slim chance, he's going to the boulevard..

He's going down to the Dirty Boulevard
He's going out to the Dirty Boulevard
He's going down to the Dirty Boulevard


This room cost $300 a day you can believe it man its true
Somewhere a landlords laughing till he wets his pants
No one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything
They dream of dealing on the Dirty Boulevard
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I'll piss on them
That's what the statue of bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses lets club 'em to death
Get it over with and just dump 'em on The Boulevard

He's going down to the Dirty Boulevard
He's going out to the Dirty Boulevard
He's going down to the Dirty Boulevard

Outside it a bright night there's an opera at Lincoln Centre
And movie stars arrive by limousine
The klieg light shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan
But the lights are out on the mean streets

A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel
He's selling plastic roses for a buck
The traffics backed up to 39th Street
The TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck

Back at the Wiltshire,Pedro sit there dreaming
He's found a book on magic in a garbage can
He looks at the pictures and stares up at    the cracked ceiling
"At the count of 3" he says "I hope I can disappear"
And fly fly away....

Dirty Boulevard

Music & Lyrics Lou Reed

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[Hook]

Festalicious brother. I was wondering who would pick this one, well done!
Reed On!

[bruno]

I don't know this one (I don't know hardly any LR) - but this was sung with venom. Nice :-)
B

[Pete C]

Just had one of those 'Oh Sh**!' moments when I spotted this - started working on it myself last weekend..

Love the song and you've done a great cover of it..nice one!

Pete

[Blooby]

My favorite tune from this album, and you do it justice.  Great choice. Quite a tone on there as well.

Blooby

[danieldesete]

great tribute, you play this with a lot of tension and energy, i really enjoyed this trak
daniel