***** squalor punk paradise Outlaw gravestones unmarked Mountains cast heavy shadows Valley honors no dead Newspaper op-ed hippie commune expose And communists all up and down the block Vintage retro holocaust-chic La Boheme in the land of gods and monsters Masquerade ball at the Masonic temple And marijuana smoke permeates everything All cells and viscera Homeless vagrant lowly pauper Prince of rats king of nothing Filth & filth & mottled fury Broken ****** Christmas morning double suicide New year tastes just like the old one ***** hair on ***** streets Piles of burning mattresses without sheets Papers called me a disease, parasitic epidemic I think I might believe them