Brutal/beautiful Strung out/hung out Screaming sirens/scryscraper coffins Shambolic/chaotic Computer boffins Strip-tease traffic lights Cut throat beer fights Poison friends/fakers and takers Stoic spectators And you're all cold, cold heartbreakers Drunks slumped Cans tilted Lost yr mind in the violent crime Strobes and flashes/knife gashes Bright lights/jilted lovers Piss stains and splattered brains Corruption production/fag packets Prediction rackets You're all bribes and lies
Did you slip inside and get too low? Did you slip inside and wanna know?
Smashed up limbs/stifled screams A battle of lies/lightweight street fights Monday mourning/pungent yawning Inner-city casualty Science and technology battle against me I know there's something terminal eating away at me A vulture's nest Jesus, what a test
Did you slip inside and get too low? Did you slip inside and wanna know?
I used to fall in love with everyone I'd meet And then I realised it's murder out Murder on the streets Yeah I used to fall in love with everyone I'd meet And then I realised it's murder out on the streets Y'know it's murder out on the streets So don't fall in love with everyone you meet Cos I know it's murder out on the streets Y'know it's murder out Murder on the streets.