This Could Be Anywhere

Cold concrete apartments
Rise up from wet black asphalt
Below them lie few carcasses
Of the long gone age of privacy
It takes a scary kind of illness
To design a place like this for pay
The Downtown, an endless generic mall
Of video games and fast food chains
One by one, the little houses
Are bricked up and condemned
A subtle hint to move
Before the rats move in
This could be anywhere, yeah yeah
Could be anywhere, yeah yeah, everywhere
Those new kids at school seem cool
But dad says not to talk to them
Stick to your old friends, they're not our kind
But now there's lots of fights
So many people
I knowCome of age tense and bitter-eyed
Can't create so they just destroy
C'mon, let's set someone's dog on fire
Empty plastic culture slum suburbia
Is a war zone now
Sprouting the kinds of gangs
We thought we'd left behind
This could be anywhere, yeah yeah
Could be anywhere, yeah yeah, everywhere
Could be anywhere, could be everywhere
Could be anywhere
Kids at school are takin' sides
Along color and uniform lines
My dad's gone and bought a gun
He says he's fed up with crime in this town
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere(Anywhere)
This could be everywhere(Everywhere)
This could be anywhere(Anywhere)
This could be everywhere
I hope I'm gone before it explodes
I linger late at night
Waiting for the bus
No amount of neon jazz
Could hide the oozing vibes of death
My dad's a vigilante now
He's bringing home, these weird ass friends
Like the guy who fires blanks at his
TVWhen Kojak's on
Or the guy who shows off his submachine gun
To his sixteen year old daughter's friends
Whose sense of pride and hope
Is being in the police reserve
This could be anywhere, yeah yeah
Could be anywhere, yeah yeah
Could be everywhere, yeah yeah, everywhere, yeah yeah
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere, everywhere