Slum People

(album: Tenement Steps - 1980)

It all began in a back to back street
Dogs and people getting under my feet
The architect said "This is your lucky day"
I'll build you Jerusalem if you move away
I go to town on a fast fast train now
Just like a cripple on the astral flame now
I don't take a chance, you've got me embalmed
In a cardboard box ten miles from the city land

Down in the danger zone
Slum people got to get away
Now that you're on your own
Slum people what you gotta say
Slum people

I walk the city in the dead of the night now
The streets are empty and the cops are in fright now
Standing at the corner, hate in my eye
A rock stuck solid for a car passing by
Well down the alley way long past midnight
A man came up to me and spoke by my side
He said, "Tell me, son, what religion you are?"
I couldn't be sure if I was Billy or Dan

Down in the danger zone
Slum people got to get away
Now that you're on your own
Slum people what you gotta say
Slum people

Down in the danger zone
Slum people got to get away
Now that you're on your own
Slum people what you gotta say
Slum people

Slum people
Slum people
Slum people
Slum people
Slum people...