Save A City... - Mischief Brew

Beware, the tide’s a’rising

In the city of brotherly love

The blood red lights were a’flashin

As the cellars rose up in a flood

And as they dragged you from the depths of mud, they beat you while you were

down

And then they tossed you in jail for a hundred years:

Save a city, burn it down

And that’s what they said

As they tore your homes

To the ground

And when I was seven in surburban heaven

The teachers and elders and police…

They’d cover my ears so I wouldn’t hear

The gunshots soar through those city streets

And if anyone questioned the liberty bomb

Or why the timers were even wound

A scolding they’d earn, and so we soon learned:

To save a city, you burn it down

And that’s what they said

As they burned their

Homes to the ground

So many people and so many lives

So many keep silent so they can survive

Respect

Slaughtering cops and the politicians they laud

Or the gavels will crush your home

And you’ll be expected to applaud

So the crime was a trip to the market

The sentence, a lifetime of hurt

As she saw through tears

Her home of thirty of years

Reduced to rubble and dirt

And she cursed those who would approach her

And hold papers up to her face, and say

«You shoulf feel blessed you live in the U. S

And not some other hellish place»

So take heed if you live in the city

In a part where the tourists won’t’s tread

And beware if you maintain resisantce

And choose not to be on eof othe led

And if you’re out in surburban gardens

Don’t let them plant lies deep in your head

'cause you too could come home to no home

Or to find your family dead

'Cause they’ve got this dream of a city

Where no community unity can be found

So stand up and save your neighbor hood

Fuck the city, burn it down (x3)