There's empty cans on River Street
Scumbag city blues
Sunday morning's indiscreet
Saturday left clues
Last night's scraps and filthy slaps
Need hold no excuse
Are you cutting out or holding back
A loop hole or a noose

Get me out
Oh get me out
Cause I'm here to bruise
Oh get me out
Oh get me out
Of this scumbag city

Scumbag city blues, scumbag city blues
Scumbag city blues, scumbag city blues

Just another howling wolf
On the killing floor below
And no lie you'll find in the first line
I should have quit you long ago
All those angel eyes with their red neck ties
Wanna see me fall on my face
And no lie you'll find I despise
Everything about this place

Get me out
Oh get me out
Cause I'm here to bruise
Oh get me out
Oh get me out
Of this scumbag city

Scumbag city blues, scumbag city blues
Scumbag city blues, scumbag city blues

And when you're lying in your hotel
Thinking "good riddance to that"
Something creeps inside you, yeah honey
Oh, something pulls you back
But it uh, ain't the one way system
That's got you coming back around
It's all those friends and family keeping
Those size eights on the ground

There's empty cans on River Street
Scumbag city blues
Sunday morning feels complete
When I get back to you
And I could skip and give a miss
But that I'd never choose
Cause even though I take the piss
I'm glad the future's blue

Scumbag city blues, scumbag city blues
Scumbag city blues, scumbag city blues
Scumbag city blues, scumbag city blues
Scumbag city blues, scumbag city blues
Scumbag city blues, scumbag city blues
Scumbag city blues, scumbag city blues