I went walking at street level
 Feeling strange and disheveled
 Past the abattoir and the glory holes
 Like a film noire in the starring role
 
 To the side streets, kept my nose clean
 Tasted beautiful, tasted obscene
 Singing, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
 
 This is Detroit, see the skyline
 A commotion on the assembly line
 Raise a glass to the ambassador
 As she's moving you to the dance floor
 
 Does anyone here tonight
 Remember those times?
 Can anyone here tonight
 Just tell me what they felt like?
 
 So many years, so many lives
 These are the streets where they collide
 From Jimmy Hoffa to Cadillac
 Some look ahead, I'm going back
 'Cause I'm just looking for some sounds
 To ease the vice that squeezes us every day
 
 This was Motown, this was New France
 Where the Chippewa did the fire dance
 That was long ago, this is here and now
 But the memory still remains somehow
 Singing, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
 
 I can't tell you how this old story ends
 I can't touch you now, like they did back then
 Past the child's play with the jump rope
 Hear the gun play, it's a tightrope
 
 Does anyone here tonight
 Remember those times?
 Can anyone here tonight
 Just tell me what they felt like?
 
 Does anyone here tonight
 Remember those times?
 Somebody call the riot police
 There's trouble down on 12th Street