seen the carnival at rome had the women i had the booze all i can remember now is little kids without no shoes so i saw that train and i got on it with a heartful of hate and a lust for vomit now i m walking on the sunnyside of the street stepped over bodies in bombay tried to make it to the u s a ended up in nepal up on the roof with nothing at all and i knew that day i was going to stay right where i am on the sunnyside of the street been in a palace been in a jail i just don t want to be reborn a snail just want to spend eternity right where i am on the sunnyside of the street as my mother wept it was then i swore to take my life as i would a whore i know i m better than before i will not be reconstructed just wanna stay right here on the sunnyside of the street on the sunnyside of the street