In Practice

In practice
He seems twice as old
With clothes torn and dirty
Then tell them how bad things are down south
Expose them to life in the ghetto street

In practice

Picture a man of nearly thirty
Who seems twice as old
With clothes torn and dirty

Give him a job shining shoes
Or cleaning out toilets with bus station crews
Give him six children with nothing to eat
Expose them to life in the ghetto street
Tie an old rag around his wife's head
And have her pregnant and lying in bed
Stuff them all in a Harlem house
Then tell them how bad things are down south

In practice
Then tell them how bad things are down south
Expose them to life in the ghetto street
He seems twice as old
With clothes torn and dirty
Then tell them how bad things are down south

In practice