Different Picture (feat. Chuck Campbell)

Cows crying in the stockyards
Blues jumping on Maxwell Street
Rents climbing sky high all over the south side
People dying from the heat
Got a church on every other corner
Kids playing hookie at the pool hall
Sister Mary sitting outside the tabernacle
She ain't worried 'bout a thing at all

I see a different picture in my mind
Oh yes I do
I see a different picture in my mind
Lord knows it's true

It's 1952 in Chicago
And the boys got hit with five long years
Junkies lining in the doorway
All the cats a-conking their heads
Race riots in Cicero
Jackie Robinson standing tall
Sister Mary sitting outside the tabernacle
She ain't worried 'bout a thing at all

I see a different picture in my mind
Oh yes I do
I see a different picture in my mind
Lord knows it's true

It's 1992 in LA
You better believe there's a riot going on
The National Guards in the streets as history repeats
Curfew from dusk to dawn

It's 1992 back in Chicago
School kids dealing crack in the hall
Sister Mary sitting outside the tabernacle
She ain't worried 'bout a thing at all

I see a different picture in my mind
Oh yes I do
I see a different picture in my mind
Lord knows it's true
I see a different picture in my mind
Oh yes I do
I see a different picture in my mind
Lord knows it's true