Down but Not Out - Cro-mags

The youth of today, run wild in the streets

They all try to win, in the face of defeat

They still, they kill, they’re going straight to hell

They don’t hear and they don’t see that they’re not free

When I walk down these city streets

I see the victims and the casualties

Do they stand, a chance today

In a world that’s thrown their away

They race to the grave

Don’t want to heal

Don’t want to be saved

Abandoned buildings that should be homes

Abandoned children left to roam

Broken families broken dreams

In the night I hear their screams

Can’t make your future or kill your past

With a spike in your arm or a shotgun blast

Till you have the strength to look within

You’ll be fighting a battle you’ll never win

Mortality suffered society said

That money is God and true faith is dead

I see it in their eyes tis life they cannot cope

The system tells them lies, tries to stick us into giving up hope

We’re down, we’re down, but we’re not out

There’s still time to find what life’s about

Is there a way of telling the troubled youth

That what they see on TV is not always the truth

We’re down, we’re down, but we’re not out

There’s till time to find what life’s about