Pay attention to the cracked streets And the broken homes Some call it slums Some call it nice I want to take you through A wasteland I like to call my home Welcome to paradise Dear mother It makes me wonder why I'm still here

She don't get the blues, she gives 'em Well she puts her dancing shoes on every night And comes alive there in the smoke beneath the neon lights And she don't like those hurtin' songs Cause she's already lived 'em She checks her broken heart there at the

Why she dancing alone Did she come on her own? So why does she keep on dancing Dancing alone? It's like I've seen her face before I know, but I don't know for sure My friends ain't with me anymore Oh, I've gotta know Seems so lost

Strike up the band Don't you move Oh, the conductor is beckoning Come, congregation, and let's sing it like you mean it No, don't you get it, don't you get it now Douse the lights Just stay where I can see you We sure are in for a show tonight Give us

The dog days are over The dog days are done 'Cause here they come Can you hear the horses Run for your children for your sisters and brothers Can't carry it with you if you want to survive Happiness, hit her like a train on a track Coming towards her,

Turn it up a little bit louder Turn it up I love this song Come on girl the world is ours Let's do something right or wrong Let's go live it Ain't no time for wasting time Days like these they go by way too fast Yeah, days like these you wanna make them

Would you like to go with me Down my dead end street Would you like to come with me To Village Ghetto Land See the people lock their doors While robbers laugh and steal Beggars watch and eat their meals-from garbage cans Broken glass is everywhere It's a

(The second time around) Not like the first time (Not like the first time) With me, true love Can still be found Talking bout the second time I know you come a long way, baby But you don't need That heart of stone, no

We're gonna make it REPEAT CHORUS We'll make it Been fighting for so long don't know which way up is Been stuck and ripped and burnt till it feels like nothin' Our time will come and when it's over and it's done Those fools are gonna know that we ain't

I'm in love with your body Come on, be my baby, come on I'm in love with the shape of you Every day discovering something brand new Oh—I—oh—I—oh—I—oh—I We push and pull like a magnet do Although my heart is falling, too And now my bedsheets smell like