Words and music by Roddy Frame



Everybody's walking through the city all alone

But no one talks about it

I am just a simple, unassuming kind of man

So neither do I

But 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 firemens' hoses

Holy Moses!

I would still believe that paradise

Was there with you

Never blue

Stuck like glue

On the avenue