Destitution Row

Empty voices, faux-soul pleading
Pour forth from the flatscreens
There's a battle royal and it's raging
But Simon just don't care

Payin' out all your hopes and dreams
For your fifteen minutes of fame
Bring it on, hey baby, let me introduce
Your thirteen seconds of shame

And won't you take me out tonight
Won't you take me out tonight
Won't you show me where the flowers grow
Down on Destitution Row

Carjack sirens scream a riot through lockdown city streets
Old Molotov - he's riding high tonight
His chaos reigns supreme
Landsmen hide away in fear as the monster bears his fangs
The dragon caged, goodnight, God bless you all
The Sun shall rise again

And won't you take me out tonight
Won't you take me out tonight
Won't you show me where the hopeless cry
Down on Destitution Row

Oh the men of wealth and power
Man, they never seemed to miss a beat
Meanwhile little Jeanie's down there doin' time
Just for trying to make ends meet
Where's our Tyler, where's our Bruce?
The hero of our age?
Won't you take... Take a little piece of my slumber, Lord
And turn it into rage

And won't you take me out tonight
Won't you take me out tonight
Won't you show me where the desperate die
Down on Destitution Row

Rise like lions, shake the dust
From Destitution Row
Rise like lions, win we must
Here on Destitution Row.