I can't stay knowing what's going down  I can't stay, darkness on the edge of town  streetwise kids in an act of defiance  out to defeat what's already behind us  rattle and shake their political cans  giving directions without any plans  there's a new kid on the block  and he's taking my place  walking on my grave    I can't stay staring down a .44  I can't stay dying on the killing floor  a man in blue and he's drawing a gun  a child in the shadows too scared to run  crack on the mirror of a teenage dream  like a lost generation on L.S.D.  There's a new kid on the block  and he's taking my place  walking on my grave    I can't stay knowing what's going down  I can't stay, darkness on the edge of town  the brain's still twitching but the eyes are closed  my best friends dying from an overdose  a red light flares unacounted for  it's happening now and it's happened before  there's a new kid on the block  and he's taken my place  walking on my grave