Words and music by Jimmy Nail

Can you hear it in your streets ?
talk so cheap like tumbledown
empty words and dirty deeds
words so deep we all could drown

promise of a world so fine
a picture-postcard pepperdine
and all you have to do is sign
upon that dotted line

take the word of one who knows
hear it comes, there it goes
get yourself out while you can
save you from the running man

I'll decide what I believc
no-one's gonna change me now
and I'll say how I live this life
you're not gonna tell me how

promise of a world so fine
no more drugs, an end to crime
don't you see for folks like mine
your ways have had their time