Dirty Old Town (mapeye)
David Byrne

David Byrne
Rei Momo
Dirty Old Town (mapeye)
Well, there are sixteen people in danny's apartment
Sixteen people are living in there
Remember the days of rent control
Grandpa remembers rock and roll

These days won't last forever
These days won't last for long
You know, somebody somewhere owes us a favor
That's how things really get done
In this world of opportunities, it's a land of possibilities

We wanna live in a dirty old town
Building it up, tearing us down
With our head in the clouds and our feet on the ground
We wanna live - dirty old town
Dirty old town

Now when the ladies come from kansas
They wear their traditional colors
Today the fabrics are ragged and torn
The clothes on their backs is all that they own
They say, don't draw attention to yourself
They'll tear you apart for a couple of bucks
Keep you head down and keep you nose clean
'cause people who're scared do dangerous things

These days can't last forever
These days can't last for long
You know someday things'll get better
Somehow things'll get done
In this world of possibilities, it's the land of opportunities

We wanna live in a dirty old town
Building it up, tearing us down
With our head in the clouds and our feet on the ground
We wanna live - dirty old town
Dirty old town

These days shoes are worn only on special occasions
Battles are fought for fam'ly and nations
Maybe you'll pray, but god isn't home
And there's no guarantee that justice be done

We wanna live in a dirty old town
Building it up, tearing us down
With our head in the clouds and our feet on the ground
We wanna live - dirty old town
Dirty old town


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  (The Gift Of Sound) Where The Sun Never Goes Down   (the Gift Of Sound) Where The Sun Never Goes Down....   (Untitled)   A Building In The Air   A Cloud Of Light   A Conduit To Heaven   A Hill In Ontario County   A Long Time Ago   A Million Miles Away   A Perfect Hand   A Persecution Followed   A Pretty Face   A Self Made Man   A Self-Made Man   A Soft Seduction   A Walk In The Dark   A Whole Man   Admiral Perry   America Is Waiting   American Troglodyte   Amnesia   Angels   Art Thou Greater Than He?   Astronaut   Asuka   Atronaut   Au fond du Temple Saint   Ava   Back In The Box   Back in the Box [Album Version]   Big Blue Plymouth   Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open)   Big Business   Broken Things   Buck Naked   Burnt By The Sun   Carnival Eyes   Civilization   Come With Us   Crash   Daddy Go Down   Dance On Vaseline   Dancing Together   Desconocido Soy   Dialog Box   Dialogue Box   Dirty Old Town   Don't Fence Me In   Don't Fence Me In (cole Porter)   Don't Want To Be A Part Of Your World   Don't Want To Be Part Of Your World   Don't Want to be Part of Your World (Samba)   Don't You Agree?   Dreamworld - Marco De Canaveses   Eggs In A Briar Patch   Eleven Days   Empire   Every Drop Of Rain   Everyone's in Love With You   Everything That Happens   Exquisite Whiteness   Fall with Me   Finite = Alright   Finite=Alright   Five Golden Sections   Fuzzy Freaky   Gates Of Paradise   Girls on My Mind   Glad   Glass, Concrete & Stone   Glass, Concrete and Stone   Glass, Concrete, and Stone   Good & Evil   Good And Evil   Good And Evil (rumba/llesa)   Great Desolations   Hanging Upside Down   Help Me Somebody   Here Lies Love   His Wife Refused   Home   How Are You?   I Feel My Stuff   I Know Sometimes A Man Is Wrong   I've Tried   I've Tried (Things To Do)   I've Tried [things To Do] [knee Play 9]   In The Future   In The Future [knee Play 12]   Independence Day   Independence Day (cumba)   Jungle Book   Kish   Ladies In Blue   Language Confounded   Lazy   Lazy [*]   Lazy [Freeform Reform Vocal]   Lazy [Norman Cook Dub]   Lazy [Peace Division Dub]   Lie To Me   Lie To Me (merengue)   Life Is Long   Lighthouse   Like Humans Do   Like Humans Do [Los Amigos Invisibles Remix]   Lilies Of The Valley   Loco De Amor   Loco De Amor (salsa/reggae)   Machu Picchu   Make Believe Mambo   Make Believe Mambo (orisa)   Marching Through The Wilderness   Mea Culpa   Men Will Do Anything   Miss America   Money   Monkey Man   Moonlight in Glory   My Big Hands   My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)   My Big Nurse   My Fair Lady   My Love Is You   Neighborhood   Never So Big   Nineveh   Not So Far To Go   Nothing At All   Now I'm Your Mom   Office Cowboy   Office Cowboy (Pagode)   One Fine Day   Order 1081   Outro   Pirates   Please Don't   Poison   Poor Boy   Princess   Princess [Non LP Track]   Ready For This World   Rios, Pontes E Overdrives   River   Sad Song   Seven Years   She Only Sleeps   She's Mad   Smile   Social Studies   Social Studies (The Gift Of Sound)   Social Studies [knee Play 4]   Solano Avenue   Somebody   Something Ain't Right   Strange Overtones   Strange Ritual   Teotihuacan   The Accident   The Angel Moroni   The Breastplate Of Righteousness   The Burden Of The Word   The Call Of The Wild   The Call Of The Wild (merengue)   The Civil Wars   The Cowboy Mambo   The Cowboy Mambo ( Hey Lookit Me Now )   The Cowboy Mambo (Hey Lookit Me Now)   The Dream Police   The Dream Police (Cha Cha Cha)   The Gates of Paradise   The Great Intoxication   The Great Western Road   The Jezebel Spirit   The Lighthouse   The Man Who Loved Beer   The Moment Of Conception   The Mouth Of Malachi   The Other Side of this Life   The Pearl Of Great Price   The People Tree   The Red House   The Revolution   The River   The Rose Of Tacloban   The Rose Tattoo   The Sound Of Business   The Sound Of Business [knee Play 3]   They Are In Love   Things To Do (I've Tried)   Tic Toc 2 (In the Future) [*][Instrumental]   Tiny Apocalypse   Tiny Town   Tree (Reprise)   Tree (Reprise) [*][Instrumental]   Tree (Today Is an Important Occasion)   Tree (today Is An Important Occasion) [knee Play 1...   Tree [Instrumental][Version]   Tula   Twistin' In The Wind   Two Soldiers   U.B. Jesus   Un Di Felice, Eterea   Under Heavy Manners   Under Heavy Manners (fripp/byrne)   Under the Mountain   Unknown   Untitled Track   Ur   Walk Like A Woman   Walk on Water   Wanted For Life   Waters Of March   What a Day That Was   When She Passed By   Where The Sun Never Goes Down   Why   Why Don't You Love Me?   Wicked Little Doll   Women Vs. Men   Women vs. Men (Bolero)   Written On Gold Plates   You & Eye   You & Eye   You And Eye   You Don't Know Me   You'll Be Taken Care Of

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