Deep in the shadows of a downtown city street
There's a junkie with a baby that don’t ever have enough to eat
But there's gonna come a day when she's gotta make up her mind
And she knows deep inside
It’s just the way that it's gonna be

So there's a man and a woman making love in a honeymoon suite
But her lover ain't the father of the child that she's got to feed
And the money that she makes is gonna help her through another night
Any way to survive
Is just the way that it's gotta be

Don't you even wonder why it's something you and I will never see?
You and I will never see
You and I will never see

Deep in the dwelling of a small town country road
There’s a woman with a black eye and a bloody nose
But there’s gonna come a day when she's gotta make up her mind
There’s no time to decide
It's just the way that it's gonna be

So she puts a little bullet in the old man's drunken head
Now the one that used to beat her is lying on the kitchen floor dead
And she’s looking at the blood and she knows that she's got to run
Anywhere to survive
Is just the way that it's gotta be

Don't you even wonder why it's something you and I will never see?
You and I will never see
You and I will never see

You and I will never see
Not in this community
You and I will never see

In the girls' locker room at a high school dance
A teenager had a baby and she threw it in the trash can
But she knew there'd come a day when she had to make up her mind
Yeah, she knew there'd come a day when she had to make up her mind
Yeah, she knew there'd come a day when she had to make up her mind

You and I will never see
Not in this community
You and I will never see

You and I will never see
You and I will never see
You and I will never see
You and I will never see