({}) Joey comes from a sacred part of town Where sometimes you ({}) talk so tough Your feet don't touch the ground And the ({}) sidewalk soldiers sing their midnite blues While the ({}) old men recite their story lines About when I was young like you Chorus: They say: ({})yeah We were cruising to the backbeat ({}) ({}) backseats We were ({}) streets ({}) streets A member of the ({}) boy's brigade Had a date with the girl next door You know it made ({}) her daddy crazy But it only made her want him more They weren't ({}) looking for trouble You know that boy didn't want a fight - not tonight So she ({}) headed out thru the bathroom window What her daddy didn't know was gonna be alright Chorus ({}) Sometimes this town ain't pretty But you know it ain't so bad Just like a ({}) girl who looks so happy When inside she's so sad In ({}) here we got this code of honor Nobody's going down You don't ({})walk in vain Through the kid's parade 'Cause this is my hometown Wild...