[Opening] Out of the alleys, our needle strewn fields Into the sunlight that the brochures reveal Like snakes come for rabbits and rabbits for meals Where the oar and the axe flies [Verse 1] Well this is our story stick to it but it aint the truth Cause the truths just for liars that need an excuse Around here loves a gangster and charitys the proof Where God deals on Sundays under a brain burning roof Its five blocks a universe and aliens for each Like invisible ghettos of privilege and grief And pinned up between them the carrion fly Living off skeletons of recycled lives [PreChorus] This is the place you find out Well this is the way you find out [Chorus] We all live downtown Pay two even, no parking Live with a clown Step over ourselves We all live downtown Pay in blood, no parking Sleep on the ground Step over ourselves We all live downtown We all die downtown Step over ourselves [Verse 2] Well this is our story stick to it but it aint the truth Cause the truths just for liars that need an excuse For a king crown a banker, the queen crown a noose Like heirs to a graveyard where the dirts always loose Its five blocks a universe and aliens for each Like invisible ghettos of privilege and grief And pinned up between them the carrion fly Picking off skeletons under a big northern sky [PreChorus] This is the place you find out Well this is the way you find out [Chorus] We all live downtown We all die downtown Step over ourselves
downtown, step, carrion, live, privilege