Music by Elton John

Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

Available on the album Breaking Hearts

It's a hot summer night in the blackboard jungle

Crime sits heavy on the city shoulder

Can't get no work, I can't get a job

I just sit and play my radio in the parking lot

Well they're breaking down doors in foreign countries

Everybody thinks somebody's hiding something

There's talk on the street and the nation is worried

But you can't talk back when you're dead, when you're dead and

buried

And Everybody's restless

Everybody's scared

Everybody's looking for something that just ain't there

Everybody's restless

Everybody's scared, they think we're all in danger

Everyone's taking cover from someone else's anger

The walls have ears, Big Brother's watching

They tell us that we're poisoned from everything that we're

touching

Well we could be children from the way we're acting

We feed ourselves lies and then we scream for action

We just breed and we lose our nerve

And there's bombs going off in every corner of the world