you spend your time in smoky rooms where haggled old women with cheap perfume say it never happens for people like us you know well nothing ever happened on its own and while the toilet smells of desperation the streets all echo of aggravation and you wonder why you can t get no sleep when you ve got nothing to do and you ve got nothing to eat your life s slipping and sliding right out of view and there s absolutely nothing that you can do 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 ll ever end and it s all too much for your head to take just a matter of time before you break 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  now 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