Beyond the Pale

A smokey old barroom and a late-night bus ride The city sleeps down Riverside Drive The bridge is so busy, full of red taillights Beyond the Pale on a muggy night Beyond the Pale is our lover's life A fifth-floor walkup in a hard part of town Gotta bed and a blanket and you wear a silly crown We read pulp fiction, get the paper from a bin Beyond the Pale is the life we live Beyond the Pale is the way it's been Here we are home alone Where's the dog, where's the bone We got no hopes and no luck Beyond the Pale is the way we love We hold each other and ride out the storm Take a cool tub like a couple of newborns Smoke cigarettes and sit around and cuss Beyond the Pale is the life for us Beyond the Pale is the way we love Beyond the Pale is enough for us Here we are at the bar Nobody tells us what we are We got no hopes and no luck, f*ck Beyond the Pale is the way we love Beyond the Pale is enough for us Beyond the Pale is enough Beyond the Pale is the way we love