Downtown I walk    Through New York City so hot    The summer swelter melting    Got things on my mind right now    In the alleys that I take    They just don't give up an inch    I turned and saw it all    I watched him fall    I tried to catch him    But they knocked me out cold too    "Babylon" he cried    The cost in flesh and blood is rising high       Things are falling apart it all seems    Bleeding in the gutter    The waste of random acts of violence    Where's the Savior to resuce our dreams?    Desperation's crawling    We're victims of a world that's gone so wrong?       Hours later when I woke    I was lying in some darkened basement rescue mission    They're tending to my needs and wounds    They were such a sorry lot    The very bottom of the social ladder    I just caught myself before I cried    They've nothing at all    But they're the only ones there to help       Eden's sin's alive    Stalking me    Stalking everyone       Things are falling apart it all seems    Tears that speak in volumes    The eyes of all these hopeless people    Where's the Savior to rescue our dreams?    Desperation's crawling    On victims of a power hungry world!