The city kills, sucks you dry
Brings you down, makes you high
Broken glass, broken bones
Broken dreams and broken homes

CHORUS
There's no answer when you look around
For some way out of this dirty town, dirty town

Hookers in doorways, in their disguise
Just kids on the corner with neon in their eyes
Neighbourhood girls just dressed up for the kill
Lonely old boys going down for the thrill

CHORUS

There's a place I could take you one day
There's a place we could go together
Beyond the gasworks out into nowhere
There's a place we could go forever

The sun goes down the night rolls in
The hustlers get paid from the wages of sin
Wheelers and dealers they play all their cards
Life would be easy if it wasn't so hard

There's no answer when you look around
For some way out of this dirty town
For some way out of this dirty town
For some way out of this dirty town
For some way out of this dirty town

Dirty town
Dirty town
Dirty town