This Could Be Anywhere - Dead Kennedys

Cold concrete apartments

Rise up from wet black asphalt

Below them lie few carcasses

Of the long gone age of privacy

It takes a scary kind of illness

To design a place like this for pay

The Downtown an endless generic mall

Of video games and fast food chains

One by one the little houses

Are bricked up and condemned

A subtle hint to move

Before the rats move in

This could be anywhere yeah yeah

Could be anywhere yeah yeah everywhere

Those new kids at school seem cool

But dad says not to talk to them

Stick to your old friends they're not our kind

But now there's lots of fights

So many people I know

Come of age tense and bitter eyed

Can't create so they just destroy

C'mon let's set someone's dog on fire

Empty plastic culture slum suburbia

Is a war zone now

Sprouting the kinds of gangs

We thought we'd left behind

This could be anywhere yeah yeah

Could be anywhere yeah yeah everywhere

Could be anywhere could be everywhere

Could be anywhere

Kids at school are takin' sides

Along color and uniform lines

My dad's gone and bought a gun

He says he's fed up with crime in this town

This could be anywhere

This could be everywhere

This could be anywhere

This could be everywhere

This could be anywhere

Anywhere

This could be everywhere

Everywhere

This could be anywhere

Anywhere

This could be everywhere

I hope I'm gone before it explodes

I linger late at night

Waiting for the bus

No amount of neon jazz

Could hide the oozing vibes of death

My dad's a vigilante now

He's bringing home these weird a** friends

Like the guy who fires blanks at his TV

When Kojak's on

Or the guy who shows off his submachine gun

To his sixteen year old daughter's friends

Whose sense of pride and hope

Is being in the police reserve

This could be anywhere yeah yeah

Could be anywhere yeah yeah

Could be everywhere yeah yeah everywhere yeah yeah

This could be anywhere

This could be everywhere

This could be anywhere

This could be everywhere everywhere