Down Low

When you see me out tonight tearing up the promenade
 People stop and step aside so I can move along
 Is it just because they're friendly or the fact that I am gone
 Stepping over lines of the paths they travel on?
 Living on the high side
 Better keep it on the low down
 Get to feeling just right
 Think I'll have to go and sit down
 Do you reckon that they notice? Do you think that they believe?
 I've been getting into meanness on the dark end of the street
 Do my eyes tell my condition? Does my breath show where I've been?
 Am I talking any louder than the comp'ny that I'm in
 Living on the high side
 Better keep it on the low down
 Get to feeling just right
 Think I'll have to go and sit down
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 Sweating like a preacher in the presence of the Lord
 Shaking like a leaf in the middle of a storm
 Jawin' my bone, trying to make you see
 I wouldn't much fret if my friends were all here
 But there's people in the corner, and they're starting to stare
 Having a ball poking fun at me
 Living on the high side
 Keep it on the low down
 Get to feeling just right
 Think I'll have to go and sit down
 Living on the high side
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 Straighten up and try to act right
 Keep it on the low down