Darktown - Steve Hackett

Take a trip take a ride

Through Darktown don’t be shy

Gather by the clocktower take your seats

Glad you’re here it’s for keeps

Festering wounds from years gone by Toxic waste you buried inside

In Darktown

Take a turn step on down

Through an alleyway you’ll find

By the backstreet trash resides

The underworld you tried to hide

And from a dark corner where walls loom high

You’ll hear the sound of a small child’s cry

In Darktown

Legions of hate schools of fear

Proudly accomplished their mission here

A hidden agenda behind the eyes

For the gifted ones they most despised

They couldn’t do it in the X-rated world

But presided over the boys and girls

In Darktown

It’s all on camera it’s all on film

On the couch in the shower

The stains are there still

Drink to the ones who dished out the marks

Rabid animals right from the start

It’s happy hour shut the beasts away

Come along children it’s time to play

In Darktown