Standing on the outside lookin' in Standing on the outside lookin' in Oh, oh, I never strayed outside the law Standing on the outside lookin' in Room full of money and the born to win No amount of work's gonna get me through the door When I go walkin' down Bluewater Bay Surface in the city at the end of the day Oh, oh, I got a bad case of the Benz Standing on the sidewalk you can see Somebody everybody wants to be They got the means to justify every end I had a friend broke through illegally Pulled a job on a small-town T.A.B. Five grand down on her own piece of Eden And I know and I know The first thing I do when I get into town Is buy a twenty two and cut the whole thing down No amount of work's gonna buy my way to freedom I'm on the outside lookin' in Standing on the outside lookin' in, oh yeah