Lyrics - Hold On by Reed Lou

There's blacks with knives and whites with gunsfighting in
Howard
Beach
There's no such thing as human rightswhen you walk the
N.
Y. streets
A cop was shot in the head by a 10 year old kid named
Buddah in
Central
Park last week
The fathers are lined up bythe coffins by the
Statue of
Bigotry
You better hold on something's happening here
You better hold on---meet you in
Tompkins
Square
The dopers sent a message to the cops last weekend
They shot him in the car where he sat
And
Eleanor
Bumpres and
Michael
Stewart must have appreciated that
There's a rampaging rage rising up like a plague of bloody vialswashing up on the beach
It'll take more than the
Angels or
Iron
Mike
Tysonto heal this bloody breach
A junkie ran down a lady a pregnant dancershe'll never dance but the baby was saved
He shot up some
China
White and noddet out at the wheeland he doesn't even remember a thing
They shot that old lady'cause they thought she was a witnessto a crime she didn't even see
Whose home is the home of the brave by the
Statue of
Bigotry
You got a black .38 and a gravity knife
You still have to ride the train
There's the smelly essence of
N.
Y. down therebut you ain't no
Bernard
Goetz
There's no
Mafia lawyerto fight in your cornerfor that 15 minutes of fame
The have and the have nots are bleeding in the tub
That's
New
York's future not mine
Oh you better hold on---something's happening here.

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