She's still another party blonde / Who had it all her way

Now just another hanger on / With a faded resume

He's gonna be a leading man / In the Gary Cooper mold

Now working at a pretzel stand / But it's him that's getting sold



Big dreamer gonna take the town / But she's running out of time

Still singing at a sleazy lounge / To a house of drooling swine

Self satisfied narcissist / With a body like a god

He's thinking that's all there is / But I don't want that job



Streets of pain / They don't hear the crying

Streets of pain / Never felt the tears

Streets of pain / They just keep on lying

Get it through your head / 'Cause some things never change



Won't it finally be obvious / That there's very little chance

Can't they see it's a Greyhound bus / And not their handsome prince

Isn't anybody satisfied / With the average girl next door

Does she have to be glamorized / So the world will love her more



Streets of pain / Sinking like a rock in a river

Streets of pain / Never felt so cold

Streets of pain / Lower than a snake can slither

Not to mention all the / Stories never told



Pretty girl becomes a socialite / Standing in somebody else's light

Anything can happen late at night

In the morning she'll be out of sight

Made a million on a lucky streak / Threw it all away as foolishly

One of many comic tragedies / What else can there be



So you better get on the road / To the desolation station

And you better bring all you own / It's a permanent vacation

We're waiting here with open arms / But it isn't what it seems

Just looking for the boulevard / On the trail of broken dreams



Streets of pain / They don't hear the crying

Streets of pain / Never felt the tears

Streets of pain / They just keep on lying

Get it through your head / 'Cause some things never change

Streets of pain / Sinking like a rock in a river

Streets of pain / Never felt so cold

Streets of pain / Lower than a snake can slither

Not to mention all the / Stories never told