somewhere in the city built of iron and steel where the water pumps thru buildings thru a turbine wheel somewhere there's a lady calling 911 frozen to the telephone screaming help please come if the populations growing then only time can tell 'cause prisons are overflowing there's no room in hell in the california valley the palm trees sway on the lawns of the tract housing all the children play it's darkest in suburbia it's darkest in suburbia