See How We Are

There are men lost in jail
Crowded fifty to a room
There's too many rats in this cage of a world
And the women know their place
They sit home and write letters
Then they visit once a year
Where 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
Five hundred kinds of cigarettes
This free majority in the USA
Drives everybody crazy
Down in Acapulco
Well, they don't give a damn
Back inside Chiclets with no shoes on their feet

See how we are
Hey, man, what's in it for me?
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
You're all bright and new
And I'm trying to write this letter to you
About how much I care
And why I just can't bear
To draw your bath and comb
And comb your hair

Last night in a nice spot
Where things ain't so hot
My friend said, "I met a bum
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
Hey, girl, I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw you
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

Now that highway is coming through
So you all gotta move
This bottom load ain't no fun at all
'Cause now fires and rock houses
And grape-flavored rat poison
Are the new trinity
For the so-called community

See how we are
Gotta keep bars in all 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

See how we are
Yeah, see how we are
Oh, see how we are