A G D E x 2
AGDE White houses in neat little rows contrasting against the sky
AGDE Tumbled down black shacks over the tracks children so hungry they could cry
AGDE The chrome the steel the metal dream leaving the teepee to rot
AGDE The escapist young mind left behind saving dimes for community pot
 
AG D You better get straight
EAG Better, better get straight
D EAG I mean you better get straight right now
DEAG D E Better get it, you better, better get straight babe
AGDE They're crying out for love all the time but they fail to see their
neighbours eyes 
AGDE The TV is on 6 o'clock news the channel's in full colored lies
AGDE The company meets, the President speaks he's young but his bones creak
AGDE Young girl dresses for the high school dance and the guy next door is dyin'
for a peek 
AG Get straight
DEAG You better, yeah, you better get straight babe
DEAG Oh did you get what I said, I said to you
DEA That you, you better, you better get angry
GDE You better, you better get straight
AGDE They put a bible in the drawer of the motel room and it's crying out to be read
AGDE But it stays right there collecting dust, no one understands what's being said
AGDE Lovers make love in comfy boxes, what will tomorrow bring
AGD
E They've been told that it's wrong but they don't give a damn, soon another
life it will bring 
AG You better get straight baby
DEAG Yeah you, you better get straight baby
DEAG Oh and I think I better get myself to get it babe
DEA G You know what I mean I been bent so very long
DE I wanna fly right, I wanna do it alright