Raised in a nursery of crumbling brick

Rusted iron, cracked stone and steel

Nurtured in a barren concrete crib

In a playground of grey, your fate is sealed

Against a back drop of drab, cold corrosion

We learn to dance, love, sing and play

Razor wire the strung umbilical cord

In an unsterile womb of urban decay 



Let me take you down

As I'm going too 



Play hard - like child's play

Playing rough - after all it's only a game 



(lead) 



Now, redevelopment lies in ruins

As gutted slums are sown

Enveloping, smothering squalor

This dereliction grows

Outside it is now cold and dark

Only desolation, darkness and gloom

Not a far cry from a tortured cat

Your cities will become your tombs 



Let me take you down

As I'm going too 



Play hard - like child's play

Playing rough - after all it's only... 



Play hard - like child's play

Playing rough - after all it's only a game