Brutal/beautiful Strung out/hung out Screaming sirens/skyscraper coffins Shambolic/chaotic Computer boffins
Strip-tease traffic lights Cut throat beer fights Poison friends/fakers and takers Stoic spectators And you´re all cold, cold heartbreakers Drunks slumped Cans tilted Lost your mind in the violent crime Strobes and flashes/knife gashes Bright lights/jilted lovers Piss stains and splattered brains Corruption production/fag packets Prediction rackets You´re all bribes and lies Did you slip inside and get too low? Did you slip inside and wanna know? Smashed up limbs/stifled screams A battle of lies/lightweight street fights
Monday mourning/pungent yawning Inner-city casualty Science and technology battle against me I know there´s something terminal eating away at me A vulture´s nest Jesus, what a test Did you slip inside and get too low? Did you slip inside and wanna know? I used to fall in love with everyone I´d meet And then I realised it´s murder out Murder on the streets Yeah I used to fall in love with everyone I´d meet And then I realised it´s murder out on the streets Y´know it´s murder out on the streets So don´t fall in love with everyone you meet Cos I know it´s murder out on the streets Y´know it´s murder out