Michael Ball Avenues and Alleyways song lyrics

Sleep like a baby

My little lady

Dream tell the sunrise

Creeps into your eyes, dream tell the sunrise turns on the day

In the avenues and alleyways

While you sleep there's a whole world comin alive

Abel and his brother fight with one another

In and out of every dive

The avenues and alleyways

Where the strong and the quick alone can survive

Look around the jungle

See the rough and tumble

Listen to a squealer cry

Then a little later in the morning paper

Read about the way he died

Wake up my pretty

Go to the city

Stay through the daytime

Safe in the sunshine

Stay till the daytime turns into night

In the avenues and alleyways

Where a man's gotta work out which side he's on

Anyway he chooses

Chances are he looses

No one gets to live too long

The avenues and alleyways

Where the soul of a man is easy to buy

Everybody's wheelin'

Everybody's dealin'

All the low and living hyde

Every city's got 'em can we ever stop em

Some of us

Have gotta try