The Dogs - Stray

This place is going to the dogs

The streets are dirty and the shops are closed

Stolen cars abandoned in the road

It’s very sad and no-one wants to know

This place is going to the dogs

I used to live 'round here when I was a kid

Sorry can’t tell you everything that I did

But we didn’t use syringes razors and knives

Guns were for TV not for real life

Doors remained open for the welcome inside

Houses clean and tidy, shining with pride

Now the home is just a prison like never before

Locks and chains and bars and many locks on the door…

This place is going to the dogs

The streets are dirty and the shops are closed

Stolen cars abandoned in the road

It’s very sad and no-one wants to know

This place is going to the dogs

Football and cricket out in the street

Saying hello to the people you meet

We were always up to something, but doing no harm

Run-outs and hiding, the Bobby on the beat

Knocking down ginger, away on your feet

I never had a gameboy or a VCR

This place is going to the dogs.

Football and cricket out in the street

Saying hello to the people you meet

We were always up to something, but doing no harm

Run-outs and hiding, the Bobby on the beat

Knocking down ginger, away on your feet

I never had a gameboy or a VCR

This place is going to the dogs.

This place is going to the dogs

The streets are dirty and the shops are closed

Stolen cars abandoned in the road

It’s very sad and no-one wants to know

This place is going to the dogs