Machine There But For The Grace Of God Go I Lyrics

There But For The Grace Of God Go I Lyrics

Carlos and Carmen Vidal just had a child
A lovely girl with a crooked
smile
Now they gotta split 'cause the Bronx ain't fit
For a kid to grow
up in
Let's find a place they say, somewhere far away
With no blacks, no
Jews and no gays

Chorus:
There but for the grace of God go
I

Poppy and the family left the dirty streets
To find a quiet place
overseas
And year after year the kid has to hear
The do's the don'ts and
the dears
And when she's ten years old she digs that rock 'n' roll
But
Poppy bans it from home

Chorus

Baby, she turns out to be a
natural freak
Popping pills and smoking weed
And when she's sweet sixteen
she packs her things and leaves
With a man she met on the street
Carmen
starts to bawl, bangs her head to the wall
Too much love is worse than none
at all

Chorus