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On the Avenue

by Jochen Distelmeyer

on Songs From The Bottom, Vol. 1 (2016)

Everybody's walking through the city all alone
And no one talks about it
I am just a simple, unassuming kind of man
So neither do I
And I walk like the rest and try to do my best
'til I'm beaten, 'til I'm blue
And it shines like the sun inside of everyone
Like the neon that I see in the rain
On the avenue

Everybody's dreaming 'bout a city in the sky
Where we can live without love
I am just a simple, unassuming kind of guy
So so do I

But to feed you from a shell, fill you up and wish you well
That's my reason, it's what I do
And it shines in the guise of Egyptian sparkling eyes
In the basement of a hotel Paradise
On the avenue

And if the hotel burns down
We'd probably drown 'neath the firemen's hoses
Holy Moses!

I would still believe that paradise was there with you
Turnin' blue, stuck like glue
On the avenue