(R. Hall E. King G. Rossington). . I snuck around the corner he had his guard down. I threw the first punch that's when he hit the ground. To survive in the street you gotta win the first round. 'Cause if you want eat you gotta be the baddest one around. I'm a backstreet crawler. Daddy paid for college I earned a degree. Got a job up on Wall Street. Where I learned to make the little man bleed. That's when I got stomped like a cattle stampede. Had a nervous breakdown all my friends and family left me. (chorus). Yeah I'm a backstreet crawler. When you see them on the concrete it's their spirit that's harder. Yeah I'm a backstreet crawler. Where your ego meets defeat and your pride can't get no smaller. Yeah I'm a backstreet crawler. Yeah I'm a backstreet crawler. (repeat). I guess you might say it sure is a shame. I used to have everything oh how my life has changed. Yeah I'm broken and torn I've never been free. Lost everything that meant a thing to me. (repeat chorus).