See How We Are Lyrics

See How We Are

Crowded fifty to a room
There's too many rats in this cage of the
world
And the women know their place
They sit home and write
letters
And when they visit once a year
Well they both just sit there and
stare
See how we are
Gotta keep bars in between us
See how we are
We
only sing about it once in every twenty years
See how we are
Oh see how we
are
Now there are seven kinds of Coke
500 kinds of cigarettes
This
freedom of choice in the USA drives everybody crazy
But in Acapulco
Well
they don't give a damn
About kids selling Chiclets with no shoes on their
feet
See how we are
And the Mexico City tourist says to the Indian, "Get
the fuck out of the
way
See how we are
We only sing about it once in
every twenty years
See how we are
Oh see how we are
Now that highway's
coming through
So you all gotta move
This bottom rung ain't no fun at
all
No fires and rockhouses and grape-flavored rat poison
They are the
new trinity
For this so-called community
See how we are
Gotta keep
bars on all of our windows
See how we are
We only sing about it once in
every twenty years
See how we are
Oh see how we are
Well this morning
the alarm rang at noon
And I'm trying to write this letter to you
About
how much I care and why I just can't be there
To draw your both and comb
your hair
Last night in a nightspot
Where things aren't so hot
My
friend said, "I met a boy and I'm in love"
I said, "Oh really... What's this
one's name?"
She said, "His first name is Homeboy"
I said "Could his last
name be Trouble?"
See how we are
Homeboy... Isn't that a South central
gangster name?
See how we are
We only sing about it once in every twenty
years
See how we are
Oh see how we are
Yeah see how we are