Downtown

I went downtown to have a look around

There was nobody there but me

Looked for the policeman on the corner

There was none that I could see

There were rats in the gutter they were giving me

the shudders

I was searching for my family

The last time I saw them they were living in the

basement

Of a high rise facility

Burned out cars were clogging up the street

And lots of garbage but none that you could eat

And to the creatures of the night I was just a piece

of meat

I could hear the hungry howls dripping from their

slimy jowls

As I beat a quick retreat

I went down to the punk rock club

To see if any of my friends were around

The bouncer told me they were busy in the back

room

Butchering a dog they'd found

He said man you should have been here late last

night

They ate some boat people live on stage

And now the critics say that cannibalism

Is sure to be the latest craze

He showed me the bones piled high on the dance

floor

Said come back in a while they're gonna eat a bunch

more

It's the kind of entertainment that the crowds really

go for

I could see his skanky eyes checking me out for size

As I headed out the door

The night was cloudy and the moon was dead

As I waded through pools of blood

I noticed as it dried it stuck to my shoes

Like the slimiest kind of mud

I wondered what I looked like

If my hairstyle was still all right

But there wasn't a mirror in sight

So I jumped into a taxi the driver's name was Maxie

But she soon dropped dead from fright

And all the while I was dreaming up a storm

Wiping my forehead cause I felt a little warm

Choking on the words that my mouth could not

quite form

I rolled over on my back and had another heart

attack

And hoped I wouldn't get reborn