Step right up and join the free world Paradise in the garden for you girl Sign your flesh on the dotted line This is once in a lifetime I am the serpent I've got an apple for you In New York city Take a bite out of me Welcome to Chinatown You work for me A dollar a day, you give your soul away Welcome to Chinatown You work for me A dollar a day, you give your soul away Slithering across the sea On waves of misery Shackled to the debt Bought and sold and yet Your soul is sublet to the city Come drink the venom We'll never let them take you home alive You have to somehow survive this hell In Chinatown You work for me A dollar a day, you give your soul away Welcome to Chinatown You work for me A dollar a day, you give your soul away You used to be so pure Like a flower in its pre-floral stage But you chose to ride the snake Onto your grave Like so many others Welcome to Chinatown Welcome to Chinatown Welcome Welcome