On the street
People make things happen
Concrete
Buildings greet the skyline
People meet
By the subway station
Feel the heat
From the sidewalk pavement
Under the city people's dreams collecting
Look down the plughole in the kitchen basin
Down the sink
Back and forth follow the stream the city is bleak forget all your dreams
Down you'll go
You can't compete whatever it is you can't defeat the pull of the street
You follow the drain spinning around again and again again and again
Once you're in
Forget every place you've ever been the city is dark you'll never be clean
Bow your head
The street
Is where
The street is where people live
The street
Is where
The street is where people die
On the beat
Cops patrol the ally
People cheat
One another for some
Hanging meat
In the butcher's window
Bitter sweet
Stench from in the gutter
Under the city people's dreams collecting
Look down the plughole in the kitchen basin
Down the sink
Back and forth follow the stream the city is bleak forget all your dreams
Down you'll go
You can't compete whatever it is you can't defeat the pull of the street
You follow the drain spinning around again and again again and again
Once you're in
Forget every place you've ever been the city is dark you'll never be clean
Bow your head
The street
Is where
The street is where people live
The street
Is where
The street is where people live
The street
Is where
The street is where people live
The street
Is where
The street is where people die
Under the city people's dreams collecting
Look down the plughole in the kitchen basin
Down the sink
Down the sink
Down the sink
Down the sink