The Beaten Side of Town - Barry Adamson

Composed by：Barry Adamson

I woke up this morning from a crazy dream

The Earth was a turning ball of fire

Satan and the Pilgrims had wiped the scene

And I became their twisted gun for hire

Don't let 'em getcha boy now use your head

The lights they're coming 'round again

"Run like a demon boy " is what they said

And then began to count from one to ten

So now I'm tryin' to get out of the city

You know where I can be found

The beaten side of town

Won't never let you down

I woke up this morning from a crazy dream

The Earth was a burning ball of fire

I crawled right inside the spaces in-between

A miracle of science to admire

But everybody knows the way the story goes

She'll love you once and leave you once again

The wind sends a shiver from your head to toes

Whispers that you've reached your living end

So now I'm tryin' to get out of the city

You know where I can be found

The beaten side of town

Don't never let me down

I woke up this morning from a crazier dream

The Earth was a churning ball of fire

The Dragunovs were sniping

As I swam upstream

And then I saw a temple with a spire

There was a sign saying

"Welcome all you deists agnostics and Buddhists Muslims

And Christians Caucasians junkies and wrecker-heads blue-lights

And deadbeats homos and heteros and Negroes

And down-lows

Speed-freaks and tweakers pimps without sneakers

The handy the pure and the atheist Nehru

And the peoples from countries in far-away places

Stupid ideas that the public embraces "

We all were invited with mostly resignation

But that was only a dream

The beaten side of town

And now I'm goin' down