1951 Small town kids

got nothing to do

But dream all night

of movie stars and Cadillac cars

And beautiful girls 

and big city lights



LA River dragnet coming down

LA River dragnet coming down



From every corner

of this great old nation

Good kids succumb

to the depths of temptation

Homecoming queens 

get lost in the cracks

and Quarter Back Heroes

Get strung out on Smack



LA River dragnet coming down

LA River dragnet coming down



You wake up one day

with a monkey on your back

With foil on all your windows

and you're hiding all your tracks

The sheriff's shotgun don't make a sound

When it's pointed at your corpse

After he shot you down



LA River dragnet coming down

LA River dragnet coming down