Rise out of your seats
We're walking through hell
They call this hell the streets
We are the secret soldiers
Battling in our own fights
That take place when your sleeping
Those cold winter nights
Here it doesn't matter
What you have and haven't done
Both Presidents and polishers
Can be killed with a gun
You shouldn't close your eyes
Or even turn your back
And sometimes you just get stabbed
Because your skin is black
And the dusty dark roads
That reek of rough and rape
Know once you hit the streets
You will never escape
The murky foggy fumes
That cause you all to choke
Cloak reminents of blood
And scattered grains of coke
We try to fight for peace
To find fresh air above
But someone sucked this place,
Sucked this place of love
All the pain from the streets
Just takes place behind closed doors
The boys turn into drug dealers
And the girls turn into whores
And when we cry out for help
Government will say we're "bored"
Have you ever heard a soldier
Who got bored with the war
So take your safe beds
And politicians stupid lie
We are a band of brothers
And you left us to die
So ladies and all the gentlemen,
Sit back down in your seats
To scowl upon the next man
Standing in the streets
