My New Neighborhood

This neighborhood is full of mutts

Barking kids and arguments

People yell from block to block

And quiet down by 10 O'clock

They blow their horns in a kind of code

And gun their engines in the road

With both hands they check their hair

Waiting for the girls downstairs

In my new neighborhood

I live here

My new neighborhood

This year

This neighborhood has corner bars

Family stores and teenage cars

The old kids run on gasoline

All lit up by the coke machine

There's jumprope for the younger ones

And those who work and play with guns

One is working on his right

To kill a shadow's appetite

In my new neighborhood

I live here

My new neighborhood

This year

Well another day and another fight

It's just two neighbors in the night

Wanda punched and Ruben cried

And Wanda she got locked outside

The sirens will come through again

And none of this looks good in rain

The steel looms like a dinosaur

A train goes by and cries for more

From my new neighborhood

I live here

My new neighborhood

This year

My new neighborhood

I live here

My new neighborhood

This year