Streets I ran this whole town - Backstreets and all I wanted to leave there. But no matter how fast I ran, my feet were glued, I just couldn't move there
Your twisted cynicism - makes me feel sick - Your open disgust for 'Idealistic naive' You've given up hope you're jaded and ill The trouble is your thoughts
Picked you up and let you down and I never said a word - But I'm different now and I'm glad that you're my girl Mess you 'round and upset you I hurt
I was in the pub last night A mutual friend of ours said He'd seen you in the uniform Yeah the leather belt looks manly The black boots butch But oh
Rainclouds came and stole my thunder - Left me barren like a desert But a sunshine girl like you It's worth going through - I will never be embarrassed
It's not important for you to know my name - Nor I to know yours If we communicate for two minutes only It will be enough For knowing that someone in
Puts up the closed sign does the man in the corner shop Serves his last then he says goodbye to him He knows it is a hard life But its nice to be your
A police car and a screaming siren - A pnuematic drill and ripped up concrete - A baby waiting and stray dog howling - The screech of brakes and lamplights
I've got a pocket full of pretty green - I'm gonna put it in the fruit machine - I'm gonna put it in the juke box - It's gonna play all the records in
See me walking around I'm the boy about town that you've heard of. See me walking the streets I'm on tope of the world that you've heard of. Oh, like
