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1. Pedro lives out of the Wiltshire Hotel,
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he looks out a window without
glass.
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The walls are made of
cardboard, newspapers on his feet,
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his father beats him 'cos he's too tired to beg.
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2. He's got 9 brothers and sisters, they're
brought up on their knees,
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it’s hard to run when a coathanger beats you on the thighs.
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Pedro dreams of being older
and killing the old man,
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but that’s a slim chance, he's going to the Boulevard.
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He's going to end up on the
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he's going out to the
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he's going down to the
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3. This room cost 2000 dollars a month, you can believe it man, it’s true,
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somewhere a landlord’s
laughing till he wets his pants.
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No one dreams of being a
doctor or a lawyer or anything,
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they dream of dealing on the
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4. Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor,
I'll piss on them,
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that's what the statue of
bigotry says.
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Your poor huddled masses, lets club 'em to death,
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get it over with and just dump
'em on the Boulevard.
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Get ‘em
out on the
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going out on the
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they’re going down on the
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Going out !
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5. Outside it’s a bright night,
there's an opera at Lincoln Centre,
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and movie stars arrive by
limousine.
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The clean light
shoot up over the skyline of
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but the lights are out on the
mean streets.
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6. A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel,
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he's selling plastic roses for
a buck.
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The traffic’s backed up to
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the TV whores are calling the cops out for a
suck.
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7. And back at the Wiltshire, Pedro sits there dreaming,
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he's found a book on magic in
a garbage can.
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He looks at the pictures and
stares up at the cracked ceiling,
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"At the count of 3",
he says, "I hope I can disappear",
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and fly,
fly away from
this
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I want to fly from the
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I want to fly from the Dirty boulevard,
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I want to fly, fly, fly, fly from the
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I want to fly away.
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I want to fly.
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Fly, fly away.
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I want to fly.
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Fly, fly away.
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Fly fly,
fly.
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Fly fly
away.
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Fly, fly, I want to fly away.
(Lou Reed)