She's still another party blonde / Who had it all her way
Now just another hanger on / With a faded resume
He's gonna be a leading man / In the Gary Cooper mold
Now working at a pretzel stand / But it's him that's getting sold

Big dreamer gonna take the town / But she's running out of time
Still singing at a sleazy lounge / To a house of drooling swine
Self satisfied narcissist / With a body like a god
He's thinking that's all there is / But I don't want that jo

Streets of pain / They don't hear the crying
Streets of pain / Never felt the tears
Streets of pain / They just keep on lying
Get it through your head / 'Cause some things never change

Won't it finally be obvious / That there's very little chance
Can't they see it's a Greyhound bus / And not their handsome prince
Isn't anybody satisfied / With the average girl next door
Does she have to be glamorized / So the world will love her more

Streets of pain / Sinking like a rock in a river
Streets of pain / Never felt so cold
Streets of pain / Lower than a snake can slither
Not to mention all the / Stories never told

Pretty girl becomes a socialite / Standing in somebody else's light
Anything can happen late at night
In the morning she'll be out of sight
Made a million on a lucky streak / Threw it all away as foolishly
One of many comic tragedies / What else can there be

So you better get on the road / To the desolation station
And you better bring all you own / It's a permanent vacation
We're waiting here with open arms / But it isn't what it seems
Just looking for the boulevard / On the trail of broken dreams

Streets of pain / They don't hear the crying
Streets of pain / Never felt the tears
Streets of pain / They just keep on lying
Get it through your head / 'Cause some things never change
Streets of pain / Sinking like a rock in a river
Streets of pain / Never felt so cold
Streets of pain / Lower than a snake can slither
Not to mention all the / Stories never told