Side streets and the summer heat

The wolves run fast when the boredom breeds

Latchkey you gotta come clean

Mission impossible at seventeen

As a perfect world turns

Major malfunction in the heart of the concerned

Another no name on the failure freeway

Who's to blame, mother says it's a phase



Somewhere down in suburbia it ain't right

Somewhere down in suburbia it ain't right

Somewhere down in suburbia it ain't right

Somewhere down in suburbia it ain't right

No it ain't right



Dead-ends scream a teenage warning

Opportunities not even knocking

Learn to drown if you can't swim

Drop out if you can't drop in

And when lessons don't get learned

The dysfunctional, discouraged voices go unheard

Another closed door means more losers

The desperate youth stumbles down the avenue



Somewhere down in suburbia it ain't right

Somewhere down in suburbia it ain't right

Somewhere down in suburbia it ain't right

Somewhere down in suburbia it ain't right

No it ain't right



Nowhere to go and nothing to do tonight

Dysfunctional, unintentional

Perpetual cycle been around you

Come after you

There's nothing nobody relly wants to do

Oh, the wolves cry tonight

Out on the streets tonight