This Could Be Anywhere - Live at the Farm

Cold concrete apartments
 Rise up from wet black asphalt
 Below them a few carcasses
 Of the long-gone age of privacy
 It takes a scary kind of illness
 To design a place like this for pay
 Downtown's an endless generic mall
 Of video games and fast food chains
 One by one, the little houses are bricked up and condemned
 A subtle hint to move before the rats move in
 This could be anywhere
 Could be anywhere
 Everywhere
 Those new kids at school seem cool
 But dad says not to talk to them
 Stick to your old friends, they're not our kind
 So now there's lots of fights
 So many people I know
 Come of age tense and bitter-eyed
 Can't create so they just destroy
 Come on, let's set someone's dog on fire
 Empty plastic culture slum, suburbia is a war zone now
 Sprouting the kinds of gangs we thought we'd left behind
 This could be anywhere
 Could be anywhere
 Everywhere
 Could be anywhere
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 Could be anywhere
 Kids at school are taking sides
 Along color and uniform lines
 My dad's gone and bought a gun
 He says he's fed up with the crime in this town
 This could be anywhere
 This could be everywhere
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 This could be anywhere (anywhere)
 This could be everywhere (everywhere)
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 I hope I'm gone before it explodes
 I linger late at night waiting for the bus
 No amount of neon jazz could hide the oozing vibes of death
 My dad's a vigilante now, he's bringing home these weird-ass friends
 Like the guy who fires blanks at his TV when Kojak's on
 Or the guy who shows off his sub-machine gun
 To his sixteen year old daughter's friends
 Whose sense of pride and hope is being in the police reserve
 This could be anywhere
 Could be everywhere
 Could be anywhere
 Everywhere
 This could be anywhere
 This could be everywhere
 This could be anywhere
 This could be everywhere
 Everywhere