I took a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge   The new graffiti says that life's a bitch   And now I hear this bridge is falling down   Someone will steal it 'fore it hits the ground      Now I wanna go out walking in my own neighborhood   Where I was just a little girl and life was good   But the boys are on the corner, gonna fuck with me   I'm gonna keep on walking, they don't see      This is my town   I was born and raised   On these streets   This is my town, oh yeah   Oh yeah, my town      Too many people are on the street tonight   It's way too hot, someone's looking for a fight   What a mess of faces in an endless sea   I'm getting tired of all this energy      And I guess, I could just pick it up and move outside of town   And listen to the crickets when the sun goes down   But then we couldn't hear them playing down at S.O.B.s   Where my friend Lincoln can get us in for free      And this is my town   I grew up too fast   On these streets   Hey, this is my town, oh yeah   Hey, yeah, yeah   This is my town, oh yeah      And tonight the rain is falling   Falling down   The lights outside keep changing   Without a sound, oh yeah      Now let's just take a train down into Chinatown   Past the house of candles, you know they burned it down   Tomorrow is the Puerto Rican Day Parade   They'll be dancing in the streets, come to carry me away      And this is my town   I was born and raised   On these streets   This is my town      I'm walking down   These mean streets   It's a big, bad town   This is my town   Hey yeah, yeah, this is my   Oh, my town      I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah   Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah   Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah