This city is skint and its debts out of reach While billions are spent to preserve a prestige More shops are shut down, soon this avenue's dead Jobs gone, d** done - see where all has led More glamour downtown but our neighborhood's dying The flats are run down and the walls are decaying The streets of Berlin have become a sad sight And there's a lot who are ready now, ready for a riot Who needs this pomp, what's splendour f*cking for? (You spoil the money taken from the poor) No way to appease us anymore The man on the street is hardly making due Get off your seats and hear us singing... No, you CAN'T KEEP US SILENT No, you won't give us hell No, you CAN'T KEEP US SILENT No, you won't keep us still There's a million gray clouds and they fill the Golden State Hear the new Governor promise us change
Deep in the hole, gotta crawl our way out Broke now, dead town - see what's coming out Hollywood lights flicker glamour and fame No one can afford there's no cash to be made The streets of L.A. can't control their rage Another kid shot - read it on the front page Who needs this sh**, what can we do at all? Our anger's real, we spray it on the wall The man on the streets is hardly making do Get off your seats and hear us singing... This city's a wreck and no money comes in A phantom of fear stalks the streets of Berlin You see everyday what could be your own fate: Tramps and homeless - what a f*cking sight Needy on the streets, no place for the sick No money for rent, feel like chucking a brick It seems like the same as it's back in L.A Outside the spotlight there's streets of decay