Now's the time your visions and your shreds  Turned out to be the cheap imported threads  The flag reeled out in a cotton kite  Flying miles above the wheatlands in a single stripe  The Revolution came and the Revolution went  The chemical rain left the message on the tent  Wanted: one man to lead a crusade  Payment: a bullet on a big parade    Down in Gangsterville  Where any sane people already crawled under the house  Yeah Gangsterville--the television is always thinking about  Real people--especially when it's hungry    Final decisions are made by the club  And implemented by the shadow of a glove  And sitting in a coffeehouse reading words  We got popcorn salesmen for protection from the world  Went through extensive preparations  I learned all about the other nations  When freedom was defined as a word in a book  I learned if you're plugged into something then baby you're hooked    Into Gangsterville  I searched for a rose or some sweet juice of water  Gangsterville--people are giving  A black lady sobbed on a step--God bless the little born    On the other hand, sitting next to a evil crew  They just got down from floor eighty-two  Been selling Indian reservations  Coming in looking for some jazz and a little libations  I like the same kind of beer  I gotta get right out of here  I'm going to New Orleans--gonna buy me a prayer  Gonna call somebody from a call box there    Hell this is Gangsterville  Bring your money to the shore  No automatic weapons on the jetty  Oh Gangsterville--electro shields on the phalanx  Club the Mayor in the streets--it's a chewable fecie    My kind, we are the worst kind  Got enough shrinks working on us  To defy paralysis, identify analysis  Just wanna hold my carburettor bible  Snapping to attention--eyes on the horizon  Keep your filter clean--wipe the oil from your dreams  Keep our hopes pinned to the Southern Cross  You got to believe in something or you feel a sense of loss    Down in Gangsterville  Pelicans dying strangling on a six can strap  Gansterville shut off all the power burn out all the gasoline  Stop writing things on screens.