Shakedown In Juarez

It was the summer of confusion back in 2006
 There was a stench on the air
 Down by the border some kids
 With only one thing in question
 Would they make it through the night?
 Or end up in a suitcase on front of El Paso Times
 See times they were changing
 There was violence in the streets
 Down in Juarez Mexico getting rowdy off the beat
 With tequila in the air and booze in our system
 It was a shakedown in Juarez you couldn't have missed them
 It was a shakedown in Juarez
 It was a shakedown in Juarez
 Rolling across the boarder around four a.m.
 We should have known we had it coming when we couldn't get in
 So we clipped on through the fence and slipped right past the feds
 Down Avenida, Past the clubs and right on past the stench
 See there was something in the air as we walked that night
 On down the main strip no more lights and only devils in sight
 Anyone who dares enter finds them selves in some danger
 Read the cardboard box as things they only got stranger
 Whistles in the night night that signaled we were alone
 Up pulls a paddy wagon with 666 on the door so
 Hands above our heads and backs against the wall
 Out comes a knife just one excuse was needed that's all
 How much for one ticket and yeah you know what I mean
 How much it gonna cost to set these here gringos free?
 A hundred bucks a pop and you can save your skin
 It was a shakedown in Juarez or never see them again
 Moving moving
 Jumping jumping in the streets and
 Running running
 Keeping up the pace
 Hoping hoping
 For a brave new future
 Dying dying
 Like it's the only way
 Shakedown yeah you'd better keep it moving