In every neighbourhood
  There is bad and good
  Money's tight, prices overblown
  They sell ecstasy
  Here on avenue B
  One way ticket to the COMBAT ZONE
  
  The streets are fast and tough
  And if you're tough enough
  Chances are you can make it on your own
  Life on overdrive
  You could learn to survive
  Livin' life in the COMBAT ZONE
  
  
  CHORUS
  Keep your ear to the ground
  Keep your shoulder to the wheel
  Keep your finger on the pulse
  And you can make it
  Keep your eye on the dice
  Keep your back to the wall
  One step ahead of the game
  And you can make it
  
  
  Here is the place, now is the time
  It's up to you (Get ready now)
  You better be on your guard
  Sometimes you're blind, you carry on
  (Business as usual)
  How can we be so hard?
  
  
  You can run away
  Or, you can choose to stay
  Either way, life can chill you to the bone
  You know that golden rule
  Don't be nobody's fool
  Play it cool, in the COMBAT ZONE
  
  
  CHORUS
  
  
  Watch what you say
  Watch what you do
  It's up to you (Get ready now)
  They'll take you for a ride
  Before you're bought and sold
  Get it up
  Get it under control (Get ready now)
  There's nowhere you can hide
  
  
  CHORUS
  
  
  Can't people understand
  There's a world at your command
  Can't we trust one another?
  What does it take to make you see
  We share one destiny
  And nothing lasts forever
  
  
  Higher, this could be the vision
  That we've both been dreamin of...
  
  
  Higher, and so much brighter
  Than the stars that shine above