Wrong Side Of The Tracks

Well there you were calling

One hand would, would dial your future

But with one foot in the grave

You turned into a slave, lost and depraved

First of all we fell in, head-first, and

When you go like that you know there's no looking back

You never would come back

From that side of the track

You tell me you're hurting now and you tell me you're

down

I see you've been hanging on the wrong side of town

They said "give me your money boy" and then took your

pride

You gave them your rights and didn't bother to put up a

fight

So you've found your medicine,

The poison messing with your head,

Like a bat out of hell

You're talking so cheap, in the nostalgia you dwell,

To addiction compelled

But tell me, if everyone's falling

In and out of consciousness, is worthiness

All but washed down the drain

To drown the pain, cause I've been and done that too

You tell me you're hurting now and you tell me you're

down

I see you've been hanging on the wrong side of town

They said "give me your money boy" and then took your

pride

You gave them your rights and didn't bother to put up a

fight

Watched you grow from an innocent boy

Into nothing but a drug-addled toy

Saw you sink but you couldn't swim,

I couldn't always be there to go out on a limb

I tried and tried to make you see the light,

Thought that in the end a friend could do right

But all that we stood for didn't matter at all,

You traded all for a score

Tell me you're hurting now and you tell me you're down

(Like gunshots destroying my heart, oh-oh)

I see you've been hanging on the wrong side of town

They said "give me your money boy" and then took your

pride (Like gunshots destroying my heart, oh-oh)

You gave them your rights and didn't bother to put up a

fight

Handed in your resignation for lifetime dreams (You

tell me you're down, the wrong side of town)

It's not what you did, it's what you didn't do that you

can't redeem

Forget your reservations, the demon's on your back (You

tell me you're down, the wrong side of town)

Will keep you company when you're roaming the wrong

side of the tracks