They caught the last poor man on a poor man's vacationthey cuffed him and they confiscated his stuffand they
dragged his black ass down to the stationand said "ok the
streets are safe now.all your pretty white children can
come out to see spot runand they came out of their houses
and they looked aroundbut they didn't see no one.and my country tis of theeto take swings at each
other on talk show tvwhy don't you just go ahead and
turn off the sun'cause we'll never live long
enough toundo everything they've done to youundo everything they've done to youand above
96th street,they're handing out smallpox blanketsso people don't freezethe old dogs they got a new
trickit's called criminalize the symptomswhile
you spread the diseasei hold on hard to somethingbetween my teeth when i'm sleepingand i wake up and
my jaw achesand the earth is full of earthquakesand my country tis of theeto take shots at each other on
prime time tvwhy don't you just go ahead and turn off
the sun'cause we'll never live long enough toundo everything they've done to youundo everything
they've done to youthey caught the last poor
manflying away in a shiny red capeand they brought
him down to the stationand they said "boy you should know
betterthan to try and escape"and i ran away with the
circus'cause there's still some honest work left
for bearded ladiesbut it's not the same goin'
town to townsince they put everyone in jail 'ceptthe cleavers and the bradysand my country tis of
theeto take swings at each other on talk show tvwhy
don't you just go ahead and turn off the sun'cause we'll never live long enough toundo
everything they've done to youundo everything
they've done to you