There´s blacks with knives and whites with guns
fighting in Howard Beach
There´s no such thing as human rights
when you walk the N.Y. streets
A cop was shot in the head by a 10 year old kid named Buddah in

Central Park last week
The fathers are lined up by
the coffins by the Statue of Bigotry
You better hold on something´s happening here
You better hold on---meet you in Tompkins Square
The dopers sent a message to the cops last weekend
They shot him in the car where he sat
And Eleanor Bumpres and Michael Stewart must have appreciated that
There´s a rampaging rage rising up like a plague of bloody vials
washing up on the beach
It´ll take more than the Angels or Iron Mike Tyson
to heal this bloody breach
A junkie ran down a lady a pregnant dancer
she´ll never dance but the baby was saved
He shot up some China White and nodded out at the wheel

and he doesn´t even remember a thing
They shot that old lady
´cause they thought she was a witness
to a crime she didn´t even see
Whose home is the home of the brave by the Statue of Bigotry
You got a black .38 and a gravity knife
You still have to ride the train
There´s the smelly essence of N.Y. down there
but you ain´t no Bernard Goetz
There´s no Mafia lawyer
to fight in your corner
for that 15 minutes of fame
The have and the have nots are bleeding in the tub
That´s New York´s future not mine
Oh you better hold on---something´s happening here.