Stand Your Ground

Hold your head up high

'Cause tomorrow you may die

'Cause there's no one safe around here

No one's safe around here

Stand your ground

Till you're the last one in town

Yeah, someone that you trust turned out to be a tricker

Smoking cigarettes, getting stoned on liquor

Getting really dizzy, only getting sicker

Small problem now only seem bigger

America's a safe place if you're gonna leave it

And the rhetoric is there if you're gonna read it

And the huddled masses the machine defeated

And the rich look down to the rabble to bleed it

Hold your head up high

'Cause tomorrow you may die

'Cause there's no one safe around here

No one's safe around here

Stand your ground

Till you're the last one in town

Oddly enough, it gets tough when you're running

So you brush off the homeless when they start coming

In LA, Broadway, it's wicked when they're watching

And your backup, man, your backup, man, your backup ain't working

There's no food, so you're spurred into action

Set up and go to no satisfaction

Ice and snow is the city's fashion

When you walk in the shadows, girl, there's no protection

Hold your head up high

'Cause tomorrow you may die

'Cause there's no one safe around here

No one's safe around here

Stand your ground

Till you're the last one in town

OK, well

This is the city of Los Angeles

And it never sleeps

It may look like it

But it doesn't

It lives and breathes nocturnally

So when you've got no place to sleep at night

And you're all huddled up

And you're cold

Well, this song goes out to the city's forgotten

Hey, Tim, take us on home

Underlying reason, well she can't keep it going

In the middle of the night they found her frozen

And the Walmart sign keeps on glowing

And the winds of change keep on blowing

Hold your head up high

'Cause tomorrow you may die

'Cause there's no one safe around here

No one's safe around here

Stand your ground

Till you're the last one in town