Harold Washington in a garter-belt and stockings father wasn't picking sides but dog-eared pages gave clues to the thoughts inside the black sheep prince bowed for
mouth hear me sing it wrong Is it "cigarettes and coffee" now or Dreams to be Remembered I'll leave regrets for dead and sing along So I'm reaching for
I was just a kid when I found out how cruel the world could be Faded pictures from forgotten times of endless misery I lit a candle but I could not know
hear them anymore Thousands of us dead today, thousands went unfed today And all we talk about's the fucking weather And I'll keep singing the same songs
I light another as the city goes grey Face the whirlwind with a polite smile Resist the motion of sef righteous crusades Some of the others live for deprivation
how a new world began A passing phrase of quiet indignation A molotov to start the conflagration Till we've lost our voice we'll make a joyful noise A penny for
no free drinks in hell? I'm neither a poet nor a babysitter But I got a guitar and a way to kill an hour now I got no fucking pity for the fools who broke
Witness a jaded town got some champagne for a forty ounce frown I've worked my theories through already half dead and nothing more to lose Forget now
If good behavior means a two-year show Other cons are talking about me now, they call me the kid And the judge who sent me up made a good impression For
you do It is what you've got and who you'll screw Your boot straps were broken before you arrived Throw my hands up at this world sometimes People get shot for
It's all wrinkled elbow shirts and poker faces on this bus Back to a nitch dug just like a ditch in this city's weathered crust but there's something
Past ten I start to lose my sight Six hours gone, two fisting Try to talk but nothing comes out right Try to make it work tomorrow Yesterday we were
guaranteed Is compassion just a second thought of hope brought to it's knees Can dignity see fit to work past all it doesn't want to see? Seven guns for degradation Three cheers for