It could happen to you,    a defect from the wasted outskirts of los angeles    with a crumpled-up pass for the RTD    And no authority or trajectory    on the brink of insanity    You'd better believe it    because it's written all over your face    just a neighborhood reject,    out of step and out of place    You'd better believe it    Would you ever have thought    persistence could prevail    against the almost    unbearable weight of the system?    With nothing better to do,    and no one else who you can look up to    You'd better believe it    because it's written all over your face    A political defect,    out of step and out of place    You'd better believe it    And the future is bright    when ideas run astray    So turn out the light,    A punk can't have a say    Sometimes desire is all that's there    Who said life was fair?