You spend your time in smokey rooms
Where haggled old women with cheap perfume say
It never happens for people like us, you know
Well, nothing ever happened on it’s own

Well, now the toilets smells of desperation
The streets all echo of aggravation
And you wonder why you can't get no sleep
When you got nothing to do and you had nothing to eat

Your life’s slipping and sliding right out of view
And there’s absolutely nothing that you can do, well

We’ll live and die, we’ll live and die in these towns
Don’t let it drag you down, don’t let it drag you down now
We’ll live and die, we’ll live and die in these towns
Don’t let it drag you down, don’t let it drag you down now

Dirty dishes from a TV meal
That went cold from the wind through a smashed up window
You can’t go out if anybody calls you
‘Cause you can't have a bath when there’s no hot water

And your friends are out on the town again
And you ask yourself if it all ever end
And it’s all too much for your head to take
Just a matter of time before you break, well

We’ll live and die, we’ll live and die in these towns
Don’t let it drag you down, don’t let it drag you down now
We’ll live and die, we’ll live and die in these towns
Don’t let it drag you down, don’t let it drag you down now
Oh now, oh now

We’ll live and die, we’ll live and die in these towns
Don’t let it drag you down, don’t let it drag you down now
We’ll live and die, we’ll live and die in these towns
Don’t let it drag you down, don’t let it drag you down now