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