Tenement Kids

Crooks & Castles, cracks and assholes
Fire escapes and lifts
Cloak & dagger, chutes and ladders
Cigarettes and spliffs
Just when you think you've won it all
It kicks you where you live

Ain't no exit on the horizon, son
It is what it is
It kicks you where you live
And that's the way it is

Oh tenement kids
1010 tenement kids
Government blocks got you down on the skids
But you can't go home you're a tenement kid

Single moms with deadbeat sons
And welfare millionaires
Tinfoil hats and ratrace bets
And romance on the stairs
Just when you think you've paid it off
It kicks you where you live

Nowhere to run when rent day comes
It is what it is
It kicks you where you live
And that's the way it is