Before the cocaine and the midnight train,
Before the tears fell on her lonely smile,
She was dancing around like there was no one around,
She was holding a bag over a mirror in class like one of many girls,
When it was time to put it all on the
line she was a ready girl
another one on the rocks, she was a steady girl
Dope in the bag, another tote in the trash,
Never enough, no, it was never enough,
she was a gimme girl, gimme girl
Before the streets and all the lonely creeps,
Before the goons he did it all for fun,
He put the weight in the bag,
he carried weight to the ave to be the big boy
He got high on the stash, yeah, he got high on the glass,
now he's a sick boy, sick boy
And the beat it rolls over and over
Like the wheels under the Chevy Nova
It goes on, it goes on, it goes on, it goes on
On forever through the stars, it's solar
Fell asleep on the dash and then you wake up crashed,
yeah, it's a crippled world
Not awake for a ride, well, then you're dreamin' alive,
yeah, in your little world
Out there chasin' the thrills, runnin' away from your bills,
yeah, it's a rigged world
you're running dead on your heels
Out in the real world, real world
