walking through the fog on a cold cloudy night looking through the smog that surrounds the morning light yeah the shades of brown it gets me down exactly like my life i don t deserve this hand i m dealt a flush in spades of strife yeah i m tired of speeches that are nothing but a bore so i m rounding up my broken things heading on out that door oh oh without no lag i ve packed my bag of discontented frowns and hopping number eighty six the first train that is freedom bound uptown yeah uptown gonna get it all out uptown uptown inside my brain uptown uptown uptown uptown got my bag of many frowns and i m taking it on uptown yeah takin it on up yeah yeah yeah yeah talkin bout a big city lights funkier nights baby happier days are going my way it should be right but i m still uptight time i better put down and get moving on hey tell me bout a i m through with the aggravation don t deserve this degradation i m putting all those negatives down to hop the train that s freedom bound  uptown yeah gonna get it uptown gonna do it all night uptown man help me uptown move on get down uptown yeah ooh uptown yeah help me moving on uptown good job uptown inside my brain