They yelled and they shouted They watched as they fought The woman struggling for her life it was all for naught The man wanted her purse She wanted to keep But all their actions they did nothing but weep The city broke under a crime wave The way the seventies went Your money was taken away S&L spent He roamed the lovers lanes and killed just for sport And all attempts to catch him came up wayyy too short Then one day Coffey got on the tube Made a little plea and suddenly Son of Sam was gone Along with Kitty Genovese The fall of the Berlin Wall Rock Hudson dying of the plague amid all this stuff was the destruction of the Hague The destruction of my youth The basketball court that wasn't worth shit The potholes so large they were like satan's pit What my eyes saw and what I said are two different things they fall like leadBirth sign: Aries
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