Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Walking Down Town, artist - The Boomtown Rats.
Date of issue: 31.12.2004
Song language: English
Walking Down Town |
It’s strange here, it’s funny in a way |
Is it the night air makes it this way |
10,000 streets under an orange sky |
And a million stories in a fully clothed city |
And i’ve heard every one of them |
I’ve been every one of them |
Nobody’s interested anyway |
This place stinks like Chicago |
It smells of cabbage and grey water |
There’s fear round here |
It steams the place up |
Seeping out through the cracks and basements |
But i’m walking out |
No i’m not afraid |
The grass is greener on the newest graves |
When the last jive had been jiven |
Those left alive just upped and risen |
From the damp walls and clammy tongues |
And the quickly cooling sweat of lousy sex |
Huh? |
Yeah that’s my number |
Why don’t you come by some time |
And you know, dial it up |
Some day you wonder how these things begin |
Don’t look, it’ll happen anyway |
When one thing leads to maybe 5 or 6 |
You eat well, you sleep well, and that’s saying something these days |
Walking downtown |
I don’t want to think like this |
I wanna think like an animal |
I exist, therefore i’m happy |
If you come here to look for your world |
Please leave your muscles with the hat check girl |
Everybody in the Eyelash Set |
Start their hearts with whatever’s left |
That’s the number, say it again |
You gotta make note of it |
Some time when you drop by |
You know, dial it up |
Walking downtown |
Sometimes I feel like i’m the first person to set foot in America |
Who looked around and thought |
What the fuck is this? |