Nightmare City

Let the children go, let the children go

Let the children go, let the children go

(Nobody knows the trouble she's seen)

Let the children go, let the children go

(She is, she's my ghetto queen, for real)

Let the children go, let the children go

In this brutal system that knows no pity

Living in nightmare city

In this urban battle field, she knows no barricade

With some kind of crazy hope in these days of rage

Living in nightmare city, living in nightmare city

Let the children go, let the children go

(Nobody knows the trouble she's seen)

Let the children go, let the children go

(She is, she's my ghetto queen, for real)

Here come the crawling politicians on their ghetto safari

Living in nightmare city

In this urban battle field she lives in smoke and haze

With some kind of crazy hope in these days of rage

Living in nightmare city, living in nightmare city

Let the children go, let the children go

(Nobody knows the trouble she's seen)

Let the children go, let the children go

(She is, she's my ghetto queen, for real)

She speaks without saying a word

She screams without being heard

Living in nightmare city

She speaks without saying a word

She screams without being heard

Living in nightmare city

Let the children go, let the children go

Let the children go, let the children go

(Nobody knows the trouble I see)

Let the children go, let the children go

(She is, she's my ghetto queen)

Let the children go, let the children go

Let the children go, let the children go

(She's my ghetto queen, for real)

Let the children go, let the children go

(She's my ghetto queen)

Let the children go, let the children go

(She's my ghetto queen, for real)

Let the children go, let the children go

(For real, for real)

Let the children go, let the children go

(She's my ghetto queen)