First Look At Stratford's LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

So how do you intend to better yourselves

Better ourselves? Mister, when you're from Skid Row, ain't no such thing

A land goes off at seven And you start a town

You put in your eight hours For the powers that I've always been

Sing it, child Till it's 5 p.m

And you go downtown Where the folks are broke You go downtown

Where your life's a joke You go downtown Where you buy your joke

Can you go home to skid row? Home to skid row Yes you go Downtown Where the cabs don stop Downtown Where the food is swop Downtown

Where the hotbeds cop In the snow Down on Skid Row Uptown you cater to a million jerks

Uptown your messengers are now real close Eating all your lunches at the hot dog carts

The bosses take your money and they break your hearts The uptown you cater to a million wars

The disinfector auto on their bathroom floors The morning simulation afternoons on carts

And five o'clock is even worse That's when you go downtown Where the guys are trips

Downtown where they rip your slips downtown where relationships are no go down on Skid Row Down on zero Down on zero Down on zero Down on zero Down on zero

I've been poor All my life I've always been poor I keep asking God what I'm for

And he tells me, gee, I'm not sure Sweep that floor, kid, oh

I started life as an orphan A child of the street Here on Skid Row

He took me in Gave me shelter, a bed Crust of bread and a jar

Treats me like dirt Calls me a slob Which I am So I live Downtown

That's your home address Where depression just at a squaw Down on Skid Road Someone show me a way to get out of here

Cause I constantly pray I'll get out of here. Please won't somebody say I'll get out of here

Someone give me my shot or I'll rot here. Show me how I will

I'll get out of here. Let's go climbing up the hill and get out of here

Someone tell me I still get out of here Someone tell me I'm stuck here

Downtown, should we feel that don't get out of here You don't want a farewell and get out of here

I feel heaven and hell to get out of here Why do I don't know what to get out of here

What a hell of a lot to get out of here