clean heart

clean and sharp

clean dream

bad start



he loved his brother and his sister

luke and tony called him mister

they made him feel much more

like a man

he loved his daddy though he never told him

and how he loved his mother

he loved

he loved her like an italian



little janet said you look so fine

so fine

something in his smile

made them feel like strangers

and then he straightened his belt

with a lover's touch

and he said i'm gonna bring home

the things that are out of your clutch



seemed like the hottest night in summer

a heat that makes you feel like dying



somewhere in the next block

there was a baby crying



finger on the trigger for the years to come



and as the moon slid up over the restless streets

sirens mocking and people stop to see

their greedy eyes don't realise

he's someone's son

finger on the trigger for the years to come



finger on the trigger for the years to come