Patti Smith Group - Citizen Ship Lyrics

Lyrics Citizen Ship - Patti Smith Group



I was nothing
It didn't matter to me
Ah, there were tags all over my sleeve
There was water outside the windows
And children in the streets were throwing rocks at tanks
Ain't got a passport
Ain't got my real name
Ain't got a chance, sport
At fortune or fame
And I walk these endless streets
Won't you give me a lift
A lift, a lift, on your citizen ship
They were rioting in Chicago
Movement in L.A.
Sixty-eight it broke the yardbirds
We were broke as well
Took it underground
M.C. borderline, up against the wall
The wall, the wall
Show your papers, boy
Citizen ship we got memories
Stateless, they got shame
Cast adrift from the citizen ship
Lifeline denied exile this castaway
Blind alley in New York City
In a foreign embrace
If you're hungry you're not particular
About what you'll taste
Men in uniform gave me vinigar
Spoon of misery
But what the hell, I fell, I fell
It doesn't matter to me
Citizen ship we got mem'ries
Citizen ship, we got pain
Cast adrift from the citizen ship
Lifeline denied, exiled this castaway
I was caught like a moth with it's wings outta sync
Cut the chord overboard
Just a refugee
Lady liberty, lend a hand on me
I've been cast adrift
Adrift, adrift, adrift, adrift, adrift, adrift
On the citizen ship we got mem'ries
Citizen ship we got pain
Lose your grip on the citizen ship
You're cast, you're cast away
On the citizen ship you got mem'ry
Citizen ship you got pain
Citizen ship you got identity
A name, a name, a name, name, name, name, name, yeah
What's your name, son?
What's your name?
What's your name?
Ah, name...



Writer(s): Patti Smith, Jay Dee Daugherty, Leonard J Kaye, Ivan Kral, Richard A Sohl


Patti Smith Group - The Arista Years 1975-2000 (Remastered)
Album The Arista Years 1975-2000 (Remastered)
date of release
16-01-2012

1 Babelogue
2 54321/Wave
3 Seven Ways of Going
4 Rock N Roll Nigger
5 Gloria
6 Redondo Beach
7 Birdland
8 Free Money
9 Kimberly
10 Break It Up
11 Land
12 Elegie
13 My Generation
14 Ask the Angels
15 Ain’t It Strange
16 Poppies
17 Pissing In a River
18 Pumping
19 Distant Fingers
20 Radio Ethiopia
21 Abyssinia
22 Chiklets
23 Till Victory
24 Space Monkey
25 Because the Night
26 Ghost Dance
27 Privilege (Set Me Free)
28 We Three
29 25th Floor
30 High On Rebellion
31 Easter
32 Godspeed
33 Frederick
34 Dancing Barefoot
35 So You Want to Be
36 Hymn
37 Revenge
38 Citizen Ship
39 Broken Flag
40 Wave
41 Fire of Unknown Origin
42 People Have the Power
43 Up There Down There
44 Paths That Cross
45 Dream of Life
46 Where Duty Calls
47 Going Under
48 Looking for You (I Was)
49 The Jackson Song
50 As the Night Goes By
51 Wild Leaves
52 Gone Again
53 Beneath the Southern Cross
54 About a Boy
55 My Madrigal
56 Summer Cannibals
57 Dead To the World
58 Wing
59 Ravens
60 Wicked Messenger
61 Fireflies
62 Farewell Reel
63 Waiting Underground
64 Whirl Away
65 1959
66 Spell
67 Don't Say Nothing
68 Dead City
69 Blue Poles
70 Death Singing
71 Memento Mori
72 Last Call
73 One Voice
74 Lo and Beholden
75 Boy Cried Wolf
76 Persuasion
77 Gone Pie
78 China Bird
79 Glitter In Their Eyes
80 Strange Messengers
81 Grateful
82 Upright Come
83 New Party
84 Libbie's Song
85 Gung Ho




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