Citizen Ship

[Verse]

It was nothing. It didn't matter to me

There were tanks all over my city

There was water outside the windows

And children in the streets were throwing rocks at tanks

Ain't got a passport ain't got my real name

Ain't got a chance sport at fortune or fame

As I walk these endless streets

Won't you give me a lift

A lift a lift on your citizen ship

They were rioting in Chicago movement in L.A

'68 it broke the Yard-birds. We were broke as well

Took it underground

MC borderline. Up against the wall

The wall

The wall the wall

Show your papers boy

Citizen ship we got memories

Stateless they got shame

Cast adrift from the citizen ship

Lifeline denied exile this castaway

[?] in New York city

In a foreign embrace

If you’re hungry you’re not too particular about how or what you taste

Man in uniform

Give me vinegar

Spoon of misery

But what the hell

I fell, I fell

It doesn’t matter to me

Citizen ship we got memories

Stateless they got shame

Cast adrift from the citizen ship

Lifeline denied exile this castaway

I was caught up like a moth with its wings out of sync

Cut the cord. Overboard. Just a refugee

Lady liberty lend a hand to me

I've been cast adrift

Adrift[x6]

On the citizen ship we got memory

Citizen ship you got pain

Citizen ship you got identity

Cast adrift from the citizen ship

Lifeline denied exile this castaway

A name a name a name

What's your name son. New York City. What's your name

What's your name. What's your name. Name. Wake up

New Jersey. Give me your tired your poor

Give me your huddled masses

Your war torn on your tender seas

Give me your war torn

On your shoes of dawn

Lift up your golden lamp for me

Ah, it's all mythology