The Lowest Of The Low - (These Are) The Lives and Times lyrics

Copper - jade Overworked and underpaid Blessed-born, drenched and worn Shades of doubt Wrong side up or inside out With double plays and rain delays A million ways to fill the day These are the lives and times Stubbled chin Red star setting, blue-eyed grin Communiques of Raoul's new days And with her pen Maggie's cleaning house again Of punch clock plans And one-night stands And scars that kiss her poet's hands These are the lives and times Another generation swalloed up by time Old aspirations trampled and maligned Can we re-connect them Shade and protect them Rise up and resurrect them Indiscreet The lights above Delancey street Flash and fade I love you babe Midnight blooms Or dreary tombstone afternoons No, I don't mind if they collide While you and I dream of the Lower-East side These are the lives and times.