City streets have lost their mercy Bandits hiding everywhere Warrior children guard every street corner Make it so hard to live Make it so hard to care Be an outlaw You've got to be an outlaw You've got to be an outlaw To survive on city streets Little children on the lower East side Under the blood red sun Ask me with their crazy and dying eyes When will the savior come How can I say you just ain't gonna find one in a shotgun I don't wanna be an outlaw I was robbed again last night She invited me home and she got me drunk Under a hotel room light I woke up drunk, robbed and naked last night