Any tough can fight--few can play.
Any fool can fall--few can lay.
Any stud can reproduce--few can please.
Anyone can pay--you can lease.

It's hard
(It's a hard hand to hold,
It's a hard land to control)

Any man can claim--few can find.
Any girl can blink--few can lie.
Anyone can promise--few can raise.
Anyone can try--but a few can stay.

Any brain can hide--few can stand.
Any kid can fly--few can land.
Any gang can scatter--few can form.
Any kid can chatter--few can inform.

It's hard--it's very, very, very, very hard
So very hard.
It's hard
(It's a hard hand to hold,
A hard land to control)

Any soul can sleep--few can die.
Any wimp can weep--few can cry.
Everyone complains--few can state.
Anyone can stop--few can wait.

It's hard--it's very, very, very, very hard
So hard.

Anyone can do anything if they hold the right card
So I'm thinking about my life now
I'm thinking very hard.
Deal me another hand, Lord, this one's very hard.
Deal me another hand, Lord, this one is too hard.

Can you feel it? Watching you in the darkness
Touching you like a sickness
Fear is taking control
The beach-head is the street
In the gutter lies defeat
Fear is the key to your soul
That makes you dangerous
So dangerous to yourself

Can you feel it in the shadows?
Watching you, touching you
Can you feel it in the shadows?

Watching you, touching you, changing you
Into a mad dog--howling at the moon
And you're so far out of tune
Better learn how to sing
Fences, we put up defenses
Then we come to our senses
It may keep them out
But it keeps us in
And that makes us dangerous
We're all dangerous to ourselves

This is a jungle, not illusion
Jungle city, in confusion
We are the next step in evolution
The new stone age, revolution
Back to the stone age, constitution
No solution

Can you feel it, in the shadows
Watching you, touching you
Can you feel it, in the shadows
Follow you, swallow you
Can you feel it?
Fear is the key
Can you feel it?
Fear is the key
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Fear is the key to your soul.

The sun shines
And people forget.
The spray flies,
The speedboat glides
And people forget.
Forget they're hiding.
The girls smile
And people forget.
The snow packs
As the skier tracks
And people forget.
Forget they're hiding.

Behind an eminence front
Eminence front--it's a put-on

Come and join the party
Dress to kill
come and join the party
Dress to kill

The drinks flow
People forget.
That big wheel spins
The head thins
People forget.
Forget they're hiding.
The news slows
People forget.
The shares crash, hopes are dashed.
People forget.
They forget they're hiding.

Behind an eminence front
Eminence front--it's a put-on
Come and join the party
Dress to kill
Come and join the party
Dress to kill
Come and join the party
Dress to kill
Come and join the party
Dress to kill
Dress yourself to kill.