Downtown - Lloyd Cole

I want to take you down underside of the city

Where the sun doesn’t shine and the moon isn’t pretty

And the slow train crawls in the nights and the days

Are as one as the smoke and the heat haze

Yes, it’s neon here twenty four hours of the day

And you’re sure looking pretty when it’s hitting on your face

Looker on the corner take a dollar for a daughter

Well, she’s only doing what her mother taught her

I want to take you down

I want to take you right down

I want to see a touch of evil in your eye

But all that I’m getting babe is sweetness and light

I want to see something that I might desire

I want to take you down, babe, into the mire

Deals going down no cheques, no plastic

One thing’s for sure, never get what you’re asking

They’re cutting with Johnsons, they’re cutting with knives

They’re robbing your boots when they’re giving you a shoe shine

I want to take you down

I want to take you right downtown

Slow train down, babe, track 29

There’s no looking back when there’s no sense of time

Beause it’s neon here twenty-four hours of the day

And you’re sure looking pretty when it’s hitting on your face

With a touch of evil in your eye

With a touch of evil in your eye

I want to take you down underside of the city

I want to take you down to the underside

I want to take you down

I want to take you right downtown