Suburbia

I'm dancing naked on my street, in my neighborhood And I just lost my job last week and I'm not feeling good I think I'll go to Hiram's Guns and Liquor just for fun And pick me up some whiskey and a shiny new black gun Go down the road to K-mart for the blue light special hour And put the barrel to my head, it gives me special power In suburbia My wife don't understand me, well she thinks that I'm a louse She don't understand that there's a mortgage in this house Her mother won't quit nagging, well she thinks that I'm a slave I'd like to put a knife in her and send her to the grave In suburbia Mommy, daddy, they can't help me anymore Cousins, uncles, well they shove me out the door Nobody can stop a man if he's got blinders on Don't take away the spotlight on this special hour of fun In suburbia In suburbia the kids are always screaming half the night The way they never go to sleep they must be smoking ice In the morning when you wake up your car stereo's been nicked It's the yuppie couple's kid next door, he's such a little prick They say child abuse is bad, in this case I think it's legal I'd like to chain him to his room and set fire to his beagle In suburbia Mommy, daddy, they can't help me anymore Cousins, uncles, well they shove me out the door Nobody can stop a man if he's got blinders on Don't take away the spotlight on this special hour of fun In suburbia Joe Wilson down the road is fucking Henry Meuller's wife And now he wants my daughter, I wish they'd stay out of my life My son just got arrested, he's got pot leaves on his door His favorite band's The Rugburns and he wants a fucking war In suburbia Mommy, daddy, they can't help me anymore Cousins, uncles, well they shove me out the door Nobody can stop a man if he's got blinders on Don't take away the spotlight on this special hour of fun In suburbia I'm dancing naked on my street, in my neighborhood I just lost my job last week and I'm not feeling good I think I'll go to Hiram's Guns and Liquor just for fun And pick me up some whiskey and a shiny new black gun Go down the road to K-mart for the blue light special hour And put the barrel to my head, it gives me special power In suburbia