It's panic time

In the tale of two cities

Such a crime

the needy and the greedy

Downtown is deadly

The nerve of the killer elite

Home street home, a place of no retreat

Life on antisocial insecurity

A great performance in the most extreme cruelty

On the mean streets the heart is stainless

The mainline is fixin' fine

On the mean streets the wire is painless

Gonna turn your world around

They're shutting done

The lethal underground

Kiss and sell

The passion of treason

The candy's bad

And plenty every season

Hate it or leave it

You gotta see it to believe it

The only high is going down the drain

Ain't no ordinary angel falling from disgrace

It's just the darkness

Always leaving tracks across the face

On the mean streets the heart is stainless

The mainline is fixin' fine

On the mean streets the wire is painless

Gonna turn your world around

They're shutting done

The lethal underground

On the mean streets the heart is stainless

The mainline is fixin' fine

On the mean streets the wire is painless

Gonna turn your world around

On the mean streets you gotta be crazy

To maintain your sanity

On the mean streets the boundary is hazy

Gonna turn your world around

They're shutting down

The lethal underground

Yeah the torture garden

Is growing upside down

Murder and mayhem

The fury without a sound

They don't care

They're shutting down

The lethal underground