Where the streets are paved

With chewing gum and beer

Where the wisest of men

Are the men you don't ever see around here

Where the aftershave is killing every taste

Where the women forgot

What they got all dressed up for in the very first place

And when all that you need

Is just a little room to breathe

When you dance this thin, thin line

Oh man, you better be kind

And you better be kind

Or stop wasting, wasting my time

And you better be kind

At the age you're sixteen, you feeling wise and old

And the streets of your dreams

Seem to be paved with sex and gold

Where the booze makes fools, feels so lion strong

When the morning time drops all it's

''here you go's'', down, oh man, what have I done

And when all that you need

Is just a little room to breathe

When the best that you can

Doesn't cut it for them

When all that you see

Is what they want you to see

When you dance this thin, thin line

Oh man, you better be kind

You better be kind

Or stop wasting, wasting my time

And you better be kind

Ooh, you better be kind