I went walking at street level


Feeling strange and disheveled

Past the abattoir and the glory holes


Like a film noire in the starring role




To the side streets, kept my nose clean


Tasted beautiful, tasted obscene


Singing, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh





This is Detroit, see the skyline

A commotion on the $$#embly line


Raise a glass to the ambassador


As she's moving you to the dance floor




Does anyone here tonight


Remember those times?

Can anyone here tonight


Just tell me what they felt like?




So many years, so many lives


These are the streets where they collide


From Jimmy Hoffa to Cadillac

Some look ahead, I'm going back


'Cause I'm just looking for some sounds


To ease the vice that squeezes us every day




This was Motown, this was New France


Where the Chippewa did the fire dance

That was long ago, this is here and now


But the memory still remains somehow


Singing, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh





I can't tell you how this old story ends

I can't touch you now, like they did back then


Past the child's play with the jump rope


Hear the gun play, it's a tightrope



Does anyone here tonight


Remember those times?

Can anyone here tonight


Just tell me what they felt like?



Does anyone here tonight


Remember those times?

Somebody call the riot police


There's trouble down on 12th Street



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