From: sfulton@ix.netcom.com (Steve Fulton)

Lyrics to a Dave Sharp song, not yet recorded

Downtown America (July, 1992)
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I'm staring straight up from the sidewalk
At the stars above me tonight
And those stars were made for you and for me
But they're no longer shining so bright

At the crossroads down by the traffic lights
There's a man dressed in tatters and rags
Says "God Bless You", now I'll work for food
I've been to Vietnam and back for the draft

They say that's life in downtown America
When you're living as best as you can
It's time to believe in downtown America
Every woman, every child every man,
Be together in the promised land

At the mission shelter in midtown
There's an old timer wasting away
He say's "I've been rolled 18 times in the past
6 weeks, they'll get to me one of these days

And there's a 12 year-old child with dyed green hair
Looks like she stepped straight out from the past
She says "mister I've (seen pretty good times)"
And I swear I could sure use some cash"

They say that's life in downtown America
When you're living as best as you can
It's time to believe in downtown America
Every woman, every child every man,
Be together in the promised land
Sing out as loud as you can

I've listen to words spoke in Congress
They say the new world will come in good time
And they all speak of their New World Order
And I swallow it down like red wine

And it feels like the union is drifting
The excuses are all growing old
I'll take any man here, to the parking lot now
Who try's telling me (it aint) so

They say that's life in downtown America
When you're living as best as you can
It's time to believe in downtown America
Every woman, every child every man,
It's time to believe in downtown America
Every woman, every child every man


(Transcribed by Steve Fulton, April 23, 1995)