beat up little seagull on a marble stair tryin to find the ocean lookin everywhere hard times in the city in a hard town by the sea ain t nowhere to run to there ain t nothin here for free hooker on the corner waitin for a train drunk lyin on the sidewalk sleepin in the rain and they hide their faces and they hide their eyes cause the city s dyin and they don t know why oh baltimore man it s hard just to live oh baltimore man it s hard just to live just to live get my sister sandy and my little brother ray buy a big old wagon gonna haul us all away livin in the country where the mountain s high never comin back here til the day i die oh baltimore man it s hard just to live oh baltimore man it s hard just to live just to live beat up little seagull tryin to find the ocean baltimore oh baltimore oh live baltimore oh baltimore just to live