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