Words and music by jimmy nail      Can you hear it in your streets ?    Talk so cheap like tumbledown   Empty words and dirty deeds   Words so deep we all could drown      Promise of a world so fine   A picture-postcard pepperdine   And all you have to do is sign   Upon that dotted line      Take the word of one who knows   Hear it comes, there it goes   Get yourself out while you can   Save you from the running man      I'll decide what I believc   No-one's gonna change me now   And I'll say how I live this life   You're not gonna tell me how      Promise of a world so fine   No more drugs, an end to crime   Don't you see for folks like mine   Your ways have had their time      Heaven help the chosen few   You best start prayin' that it's not you   Get your kids out while you can   Save them from the running man      Take your vision some place else   Give to them your tired tale   Can't you hear those ringing bells ?    Can't you see your bread is stale ?       Promise of a world so fine   Angels drinking turpentine   Don't you know we know that line   We've heard it all before      Close your mouths and close your doors   Spare us all from any more   Get your guns out while you can   Save you from the running man