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[ti:Hold On (LP Version)] |
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[ar:lou reed] |
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[al:New York] |
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There's blacks with knives and whites with clubs |
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Fighting in Howard Beach |
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There's no such thing as human rights |
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When you walk the N.Y.streets |
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A cop was shot in the head by a 10 years old kid |
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Named Buddah in Central Park last week |
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The fathers and daughters are lined up by the coffins |
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By the Statue of Bigotry, hey |
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You better hold on |
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Something's happening here |
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You better hold on |
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Well, I meet you in Tompkins Square |
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The dopers sent a message to the cops last weekend |
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They shot him in the car where he sat |
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And Eleanor Bumpers and Michael Stewart |
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Must have appreciated that |
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There's a rampaging rage rising up like a plague |
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Of bloody vials washing up on the beach |
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It'll take more than the Angels or Iron Mike Tyson |
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To heal this bloody breach, hey, hey |
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You better hold on |
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something's happening here |
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You better hold on |
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I'm gonna meet you in Tompkins Square |
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A junkie ran down a lady a pregnant dancer |
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she'll never dance but the baby was saved |
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He shot up some China White and nodded out at the wheel |
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and he doesn't remember a thing |
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They shot that old lady 'cause they thought she was a witness to |
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a crime she didn't even see |
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Whose home is the home of the brave |
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by the Statue of Bigotry, hey |
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You better hold on |
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something's happening here |
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You better hold on |
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meet you in Tompkins Square |
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You got a black .38 and a gravity knife |
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you still have to ride the train |
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There's the smelly essence of N.Y. down there |
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but you ain't no Bernard Goetz, ah |
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There's no Mafia lawyer to fight in your corner |
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for that 15 minutes of fame |
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The have and the have nots are bleeding in the tub |
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that's New York's future not mine, oh |
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You better hold on |
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something's happening here |
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You better hold on |
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you better, something's happening here |
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Hold on, ooohhh, babe |