THIS AIN'T NO LIVIN' - Jan James


Got nothin in your pocket

got less on your mind

What's worse than bein broke

is just wastin your time

It's tough out on the streets

can't work to get paid

No matter what you do

there's alway trouble in the way

This ain't no livin'

There is no substitute

For the life that your givin

To all the wrong kind

Where's your mind

Better get yourself the hell on outta here

The truth is like a knife

stabbin' in your heart

You run from all the pain

be the bleedin would start

And so you find yourself livin' day tot day

With cuts so deep you're never goin' make your way

Shadows are hanging' over you

There ain't nothing baby

That you can do

'cept to give yourself to the soul of a stranger

crawlin' your way through the city,

the city yeahof so much danger