Saved up for weeks just to buy yourself that dress You're such a star you look like nobody else Work in an office, cage, a factory line Working for peanuts, one thing on your mind Uptown, uptown, uptown, saturday night Uptown, uptown, uptown, You go out dancing taking drugs with your friends You feel so good you never want it to end And when the comedown hits and monday arrives Back in the office, cage, a factory line Dream of uptown, uptown, uptown saturday night Uptown, uptown, uptown, lost in the night And it's so hard, and it's so hard And it's so hard to get by in this town And it's so hard, and it's so hard And it's so hard, and it's so hard,and it's so hard to survive in this town And it's so hard, and it's so hard Uptown, uptown, uptown saturday night Uptown, uptown, uptown Sometimes you wonder what you're doing with your life Just work, consume, just work, consume 'til you die Sometimes it feels the only time, you're alive Is when you go out on a saturday night And it's so hard, and it's so hard And it's so hard to get by in this town And it's so hard, and it's so hard And it's so hard, and it's so hard,and it's so hard to survive in this town And it's so hard, and it's so hard Uptown, uptown, uptown saturday night Uptown, uptown, uptown lost in the night Uptown, uptown, uptown saturday night Uptown, uptown, uptown Uptown, uptown, uptown