Wait for me by the banshee tree    Let me be your wailing companion    Pass 'em on by, don't look 'em in the eye    Suicide Alley is callin'       You thought you were dreaming    You could wake up dead    And you'll never know what's real    All this damage is runnin' loose in your head    And it really matters to me       Oh, no, baby don't go    Walkin' down Suicide Alley       Downtown baby it's a million to one    You might as well name your poison    And stand in line by the exit sign    Suicide Alley is waiting       You're a loose cannonball on a sinking ship    From the belly of the beast, shot from the hip    But you don't have to be going down the dark hall    You're not tied to the chair, you're not nailed to the wall       Oh, no, baby don't go    Walkin' down Suicide Alley       Sitting naked by the window in the middle of the night    I can see you wearing your halo    If only in the daybreak of the dirty street light    I know baby wasn't born to follow       You know I wasn't born I was spat out at a wall    And nobody even knew my name    The sun hatched me out, cradle and all    On the corner of First and Insane       For the souls of the departed and the renegades of love    You and me we gotta be all we dreamed of    In the ruins of mischief through the ravages of time    You got a place in this world of mine       Oh, no, baby don't go    Walkin' down Suicide Alley