From this hilltop the skyline is laid out for me with City Hall lit up like a christmas tree and it is right here that I resolve to never let those little fuckers take this park away from me From this bus seat the mass conscience is a mystery but I care not what they think of me because it is right here that I'll respond with a rude gesture for your running commentary

This right here may very well take more balls than shitting in the bathroom of the public library down at the Civic Center but not nearly as much as walking out that front entrance to buy pills from some guy in the park across the street Oh shit man, I'm totally fucking sorry

Down on Valencia they've turned streets into parking lots with the future of the upper middle class and everyone who is anything bringing nothing but nothing to this neighborhood Coming down from your hilltop homes to descend upon the bars and the boutiques that now line these once feared streets and you call a weekend retreat As you kick aside the little bits of filth that have been left over you can call it quaint like a fixer-upper then pass right on by, stare lovingly at your wife and say that it's safe to say that you feel much safer One day this will all revert back to what it once was and jogging strollers will turn into shopping carts swiped from a local Safeway parking lot and filled with thrift store rejects, books, video cassettes, but not strewn about the sidewalk like an open air market because there will be a distinct lack of 20 or 30 somethings with extra cash in their pockets And one day this will all revert back to what it once was and sipping cocktails in restaurant windows on 17th Street may not be your best bet for first dates and lasting impressions because all the bleach in the city won't clean the shit stains off of Hoff Street and yoga studios will not provide inner peace for the laddies turning tricks out in front of El Castillito And one day this will all revert back to what it once was and all of your affluence won't mean anything, slanted doors don't mean anything, slanted doors don't scare me, slanted doors, you don't scare me You don't scare me