Well there you were calling
One hand would, would dial your future 
But with one foot in the grave 
You turned into a slave, lost and depraved 

First of all we fell in, head-first, and 
When you go like that you know there's no looking back 
You never would come back
From that side of the track 

You tell me you're hurting now and you tell me you're 
down 
I see you've been hanging on the wrong side of town 
They said "give me your money boy" and then took your 
pride 
You gave them your rights and didn't bother to put up a 
fight 

So you've found your medicine, 
The poison messing with your head, 
Like a bat out of hell 
You're talking so cheap, in the nostalgia you dwell, 
To addiction compelled 

But tell me, if everyone's falling 
In and out of consciousness, is worthiness 
All but washed down the drain 
To drown the pain, cause I've been and done that too 

You tell me you're hurting now and you tell me you're 
down 
I see you've been hanging on the wrong side of town 
They said "give me your money boy" and then took your 
pride 
You gave them your rights and didn't bother to put up a 
fight 

Watched you grow from an innocent boy 
Into nothing but a drug-addled toy 
Saw you sink but you couldn't swim, 
I couldn't always be there to go out on a limb 
I tried and tried to make you see the light, 
Thought that in the end a friend could do right 
But all that we stood for didn't matter at all, 
You traded all for a score 

Tell me you're hurting now and you tell me you're down 
(Like gunshots destroying my heart, oh-oh)
I see you've been hanging on the wrong side of town 
They said "give me your money boy" and then took your 
pride (Like gunshots destroying my heart, oh-oh)
You gave them your rights and didn't bother to put up a 
fight 

Handed in your resignation for lifetime dreams (You 
tell me you're down, the wrong side of town)
It's not what you did, it's what you didn't do that you 
can't redeem 
Forget your reservations, the demon's on your back (You 
tell me you're down, the wrong side of town)
Will keep you company when you're roaming the wrong 
side of the tracks