Let me be your wailing companion
 Pass 'em on by  don't look 'em in the eye
 Suicide Alley is callin'
 You thought you were dreaming
 You could wake up dead
 And you'll never know what's real
 All this damage is runnin' loose in your head
 And it really matters to me

 Oh  no  baby don't go
 Walkin' down Suicide Alley

 Downtown baby it's a million to one
 You might as well name your poison
 And stand in line by the exit sign
 Suicide Alley is waiting

 You're a loose cannonball on a sinking ship
 From the belly of the beast, shot from the hip
 But you don't have to be going down the dark hall
 You're not tied to the chair, you're not nailed to the wall

 Oh, no, baby don't go
 Walkin' down Suicide Alley

 Sitting naked by the window in the middle of the night
 I can see you wearing your halo
 If only in the daybreak of the dirty street light
 I know baby wasn't born to follow

 You know I wasn't born I was spat out at a wall
 And nobody even knew my name
 The sun hatched me out, cradle and all
 On the corner of First and Insane

 For the souls of the departed and the renegades of love
 You and me we gotta be all we dreamed of
 In the ruins of mischief through the ravages of time
 You got a place in this world of mine

 Oh, no, baby don't go
 Walkin' down Suicide Alley