They build it up just to burn it back down They seem wild but they are so tame Let's go downtown and watch the modern kids Let's go downtown and talk to the modern kids They will eat right out of your hand Using great big words that they don't understand

I'm right down my side of town I'm high as hell You fly as hell You hold me down Fucked a bunch of girls 'Cause I done been around the world Yeah they talk that cuffing shit But now I'm in a different space

I'm sorry but the party's over. Hollywood whore, Passed out on the floor, The talk of the town, Can't take it no more, Is she's going down. Is she's going down, Cocaine nose,

I don’t wanna talk anymore I know enough about you to know all I wanna do is Find out a little bit more I don’t wanna waste that moon And the heat on the hood of this Ford You’ve told me ‘bout your family The town that you grew up in Believe me, I wanna

Baby wants to dance Through every long hot heavy summer And all of them, they talk of national security Over garden fences made to buff the bastard breeze Past the flat footed charterhouse boys From towns where the mothers can't stand The sight of each

Rambling out of the wild west Leaving the towns I love best Thought I'd seen some ups and down 'Till I come into New York town People going down to the ground Building going up to the sky Wintertime in New York town The wind blowing snow around Walk

Talkin' about the lights of my hometown Yeah, they come alive when the sun goes down When the sun goes down You know the lights of my hometown Main Street drag lined up with red tail lights Yeah they come alive when the sun goes down He almost comes