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Hold your head up high,
Cause tomorrow you may die,
Cause no one's safe around here,
No one's safe around here.
Stand your ground,
Til you're the last one in town.
Someone that you trust turned out to be a tricker,
Smoking cigarettes, getting stoned on liquor,
Getting really dizzy, only getting sicker,
Small problems now only seem bigger.
America's a safe place,
If you're gonna leave it,
And the rhetoric is there,
If you're gonna read it,
And the hollow masses,
The machines defeated,
And the rich look down to arrive on the bleeding.
Hold your head up high,
Cause tomorrow you may die,
Cause no one's safe around here,
No one's safe around here.
Stand your ground,
Til you're the last one in town.
Hardly enough,
It gets tough when you're running,
So you bust out the homeless,
When they start coming,
In LA, Broadway, it's wicked when they're watching,
And your backup and your backup and your backup ain't working.
There's no food, so you're spurred into action,
Set up and go to no satisfaction,
Ice and snow is the city passion,
When you walk in the shadows, girl, there's no protection.
Hold your head up high,
Cause tomorrow you may die,
Cause there's no one safe around here,
No one's safe around here.
Stand your ground,
Til you're the last one in town.
OK, well,
This is the city of Los Angeles,
And it never sleeps,
It may look like it,
But it doesn't.
It lives and breathes nocturnally,
So when you've got no place to sleep at night,
And you're all huddled up,
And you're cold,
Well, this song goes out to the city's forgotten.
Hey, Tim, take us on home...
Underlying reason, well she can't keep it going,
In the middle of the night,
They found her frozen,
And the Wal-Mart sign,
Keeps on glowing,
And the winds of change keep on blowing.
Hold your head up high,
Cause tomorrow you may die,
Cause no one's safe around here,
No one's safe around here.
Stand your ground,
Til you're the last one in town.
Cause tomorrow you may die,
Cause no one's safe around here,
No one's safe around here.
Stand your ground,
Til you're the last one in town.
Someone that you trust turned out to be a tricker,
Smoking cigarettes, getting stoned on liquor,
Getting really dizzy, only getting sicker,
Small problems now only seem bigger.
America's a safe place,
If you're gonna leave it,
And the rhetoric is there,
If you're gonna read it,
And the hollow masses,
The machines defeated,
And the rich look down to arrive on the bleeding.
Hold your head up high,
Cause tomorrow you may die,
Cause no one's safe around here,
No one's safe around here.
Stand your ground,
Til you're the last one in town.
Hardly enough,
It gets tough when you're running,
So you bust out the homeless,
When they start coming,
In LA, Broadway, it's wicked when they're watching,
And your backup and your backup and your backup ain't working.
There's no food, so you're spurred into action,
Set up and go to no satisfaction,
Ice and snow is the city passion,
When you walk in the shadows, girl, there's no protection.
Hold your head up high,
Cause tomorrow you may die,
Cause there's no one safe around here,
No one's safe around here.
Stand your ground,
Til you're the last one in town.
OK, well,
This is the city of Los Angeles,
And it never sleeps,
It may look like it,
But it doesn't.
It lives and breathes nocturnally,
So when you've got no place to sleep at night,
And you're all huddled up,
And you're cold,
Well, this song goes out to the city's forgotten.
Hey, Tim, take us on home...
Underlying reason, well she can't keep it going,
In the middle of the night,
They found her frozen,
And the Wal-Mart sign,
Keeps on glowing,
And the winds of change keep on blowing.
Hold your head up high,
Cause tomorrow you may die,
Cause no one's safe around here,
No one's safe around here.
Stand your ground,
Til you're the last one in town.
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"In the middle of the night they found her frozen And the Wal Mart sign just keeps on glowin'"
One of the greatest lines...
this song is obviously about the homeless people. and how even though the sun shines hot most of the time los angeles can be so fucken cold(INDESTRUCTABLE)
this is a great song i agree with both of you and this is a great cd i think anyways oh and this song is saying that you should live your life to the fullest each day cause you never know if you'll see tomarrow or not
My friends seriously have to hear this song, cause we need them, i mean take what happend friday night for example... "la crew" not Los angelos crew the Lethbridge, alberta crew busted into my buddys house and started stomping the biggest guy... they ripped him off the chair all my friends but 2 of them (out of like 10) started hitting the wiggers... so i decided hey this is fucking stupid... im here... i masewell help i grab the mic stand behind me and i swing DOWN like an axe crack this guy whos stomping my friend over the head and they all run (all 30 of them right after that) and i see my buddy run into the bathroom and i hear JARED ARE YOU OKAY... some fucker hit him over the head and cut him open now im pissed off cops are comming and im freaking out... 2 days later i hear "DUDE YOU ALMOST PUT HIM IN A FUCKIN COMA, but you gave him stiches and staples atleast" now all you have to do is stand your ground i mean its going to get worse and im sure of that... but aslong as you keep hurting them there eventually going to learn... well if there not stupid... LMAO... well yeah im at my buddys house and he wants to get on... read my story and get confedence!
i fuckin love this song. i dont know anything about like homeless ppl or w/e and i've never slept on the street b4 but I love this song. i agree with st. martani "in the middle of the night they found her frozen. and the wall mart sign keeps on glowing" great line. i especially like the part where (lars?) is yelling "this is the city of los angelas..." great song