"Detached and subdivided" is telling you(the reader) how it can be put into different parts or classified if you will.
"In the basement bars, in the back of cars, be cool or be cast out"
hes talking about how you will be cast ut if your not doin what everyone else is doing. you have to do it because its cool.
Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown
Growing up it all seems so
one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer or the
misfit so alone
[Chorus:]
(Subdivisions)
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
(Subdivisions)
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth
the unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to
soothe the restless dreams of youth
Drawn like moths we drift into the
city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night
Some will sell their dreams for small
desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory of
lighted streets on quiet nights...
[Chorus]