[Verse 1]
Dead leaves in your broken fence
Shutters hanging off by a thread
Creaking doors and crooked people
Asking for their medicine
What are you holding?
What do you hold on to?
Telling me the big fish stories again
Hooked from the tail or the fin
What are you holding?
What do you hold on to?
What are you holding?
Who's holding on to you?
[Chorus]
I don't like your neighborhood, baby
I don't like your friends out there
Your a face in that crowd
They're weighing you down
I don't like your neighborhood, not at all
You get misunderstood
If you get the guts to leave, then I think you should
[Verse 2]
Go see, it's sick and stopped up
Everything's broken but the clock
Why don't you wake up?
What are you sleeping through?
Haunted dreams and hungry mouths
Waiting for you in your haunted house
What are you holding?
What do you hold on to?
What are you holding?
Who's holding on to you?
[Chorus]
I don't like your neighborhood, baby
I don't like the people there there
You're a face in that crowd, for crying out loud
I don't like your neighborhood, not at all
You get misunderstood
If you get the guts to leave, then I think you should
[Bridge]
Telling me the big fish stories again
Caught between the tail and the fin
What are you holding?
What do you hold on to?
Dead leaves, broken fence
Hanging on by a thread
What are you holding?
You hold on to
Few friends only love you when you're on top
No one gonna ever tell you if you need to stop
[Chorus]
I don't like your neighborhood, baby
I don't like the people there there
Get lost in that crowd, for crying out loud
I don't like your neighborhood, not at all
You get misunderstood
If you get the guts to leave, well I think you should
And I think you should
Well, I think you should