they caught the last poor man on a poor man's vacation   they cuffed him and they confiscated his stuff   and they dragged his black ass down to the station   and said "ok the streets are safe now.   all your pretty white children can come out to see spot run   and they came out of their houses and they looked around   but they didn't see no one.      and my country tis of thee   to take swings at each other on talk show tv   why don't you just go ahead and turn off the sun   'cause we'll never live long enough to   undo everything they've done to you   undo everything they've done to you      and above 96th street,   they're handing out smallpox blankets   so people don't freeze   the old dogs they got a new trick   it's called criminalize the symptoms   while you spread the disease   i hold on hard to something   between my teeth when i'm sleeping   and i wake up and my jaw aches   and the earth is full of earthquakes      and my country tis of thee   to take shots at each other on prime time tv   why don't you just go ahead and turn off the sun   'cause we'll never live long enough to   undo everything they've done to you   undo everything they've done to you      they caught the last poor man   flying away in a shiny red cape   and they brought him down to the station   and they said "boy you should know better   than to try and escape"   and i ran away with the circus   'cause there's still some honest work left for bearded ladies   but it's not the same goin' town to town   since they put everyone in jail 'cept   the cleavers and the bradys      and my country tis of thee   to take swings at each other on talk show tv   why don't you just go ahead and turn off the sun   'cause we'll never live long enough to   undo everything they've done to you   undo everything they've done to you