Where is Skid Row? Have you ever been there? Why?

Answer 1

Alarm goes off at seven
And you start uptown.
You put in your eight hours
For the powers that have always been.
Till it's five P.M.


Then You go


Downtown
Where the folks are broke.
Downtown
Where your life's a joke.
Downtown
When you buy your token,
you go
Home to skid row.


Yes, you go


Downtown
Where the cabs don't stop
Downtown
Where the food is slop
Downtown
Where the hop-heads flop
in the snow
Down on Skid Row

Uptown you cater to a million jerks.
Uptown you're messengers and
mailroom clerks
eating all your lunches at the
hot dog carts.
The bosses take your money
And they break your hearts.

Uptown you cater to a million whores.
You disinfect terrazzo on their
bathroom floors.
Your morning's tribulation,
afternoon's a curse
And five o'clock is even worse


That's when you go


Downtown
Downtown
Downtown
Down on skid row
Down on skid row
Down on skid row
Down on skid row!


Where the guys are drips.
Where they rip your slips.
Where relationships are no go.
Down on skid row
Down on skid row
Down on skid row
Down on skid row!


Poor! All my life I've always been poor.
I keep asking God what I'm for,
and he tells me "Gee, I'm not sure
sweep that floor, kid."
Oh, I started life as an orphan,
a child of the street
Here on skid row.
He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed,
Crust of bread and a job
Treats me like dirt, calls me a slob,
Which I am.
So I live

Downtown

That's your home address.
Ya live

Downtown

When your life's a mess.
Ya live

Downtown

Where depressions' just
Status Quo.

Down on skid row

Someone show me a way to get
outa here,
'cause I constantly pray I'll get
outa here
Please, won't somebody say I'll get
outa here
Someone gimme my shot or I'll
rot here.


Downtown

There's no rules for us.

Downtown

'Cause it's dangerous.

Downtown

Where the rainbow's just a no-show

Downtown

Where the sun don't

Downtown

Past the bottom line

Downtown

Go ask any wino, he'll know
I'll do I dunno what to get outa skid

Downtown

But a hell of a lot to get outa skid

Downtown

People tell me there's not a way outa skid

Downtown

But believe me I gotta get outa skid row

Answer 2

The origins of the term 'skid row' date back to the 19th century.[1] The source of the term is heavily debated, and is generally identified as originating in either Vancouver, British Columbia or Seattle, Washington.

Vancouver, BC, and Seattle, WA are geographical neighbors, roughly 240 km apart.[2] Both cities are located on the west coast of North America and are port cities.[3][4] To further complicate research, Vancouver, Washington was incorporated January 23, 1857 and named after George Vancouver.[5] Vancouver, British Columbia was incorporated in 1886 and was also named after George Vancouver.[6] The term did not become popular until well into the 20th century, while the incorporation dates either postdate or coincide with the earliest estimates of the term's origins, mid 1800's.[7]

Yesler Way, Seattle, Washington, the street for which the term "Skid Road" was coined is still used to this day, although not for skidding logs. The street runs east-west over First Hill, also known as "Pill Hill", because of the numerous hospitals built on top of the hill,[8] from the shores of Lake Washington to Elliott Bay. Yesler Way is one of the few streets that follow a direct east-west path from shore to shore except for a park built on the shore of Lake Washington in the 1970s, which cut off Yesler Way from the lake.

The logs were floated from the foothills of the Cascade Mountains across Lake Washington to Skid Road. The logs were then "skidded" by attaching a "choke" chain, or cable, to one end of the log. The log was then pulled by overhead cables, dragging or skidding the other end over the hill to the Seattle Waterfront, to a saw mill owned by Henry Yesler.[citation needed]


Murray Cromwell Morgan, in his 1952 book "Skid Road", described how the loggers spent the summers in the mountains cutting down trees and how the winter snow and mud hampered operations.[citation needed] The out-of-work loggers would hang out on Skid Road hoping to find work and would often run out of money, sleep on the streets, and beg for food or money. This is where the connection between the operation of skidding logs and being poor and unemployed originated.[citation needed]

The term "Skid Road" was in common usage in the mid 1800's, and referred to logging camps and mills all along the Pacific Coast.[7] Vancouver, British Columbia started off as a sawmill settlement called "Granville," in the early 1870s.[6] By the 1960s, "Skid Road" was commonly used to describe the more dilapidated areas in the city's Downtown Eastside.[9]

Rev. Mark Matthews, a well-known prohibitionist, is attributed to the popularization of the term "Skid Road" to be synonymous with "bad neighborhood," in the early 20th century.[7] The term most likely evolved into "skid row" to reflect a more contemporary urban neighborhood.

Don't ya hate it when im serious?

Answer 3

It's after the traffic light downtown, you take a left if you're coming from the north or right if coming from the south....you're going the wrong way if you're east or west.....you follow the road until it deadends.....park near the NO PARKING sign - don't worry, the cops never ticket - and take the path to what has become a home for all worthless politicians......the house is dilapidated because they are all lazy, but you can see them working at nothing all day......the name of the building has been lost in time, but from this vantage point you see what actually doesn't get done.

Answer 4

I thought skid row was what you find in mens undershorts when you do laundry!

Answer 5

The run down trashy part of town.

Answer 6

I always liked them .. But Sebastian has his own solo career . I hope they get back together! :-)