Citizen Ship

Oh, it was nothing, it didn't matter to me
 Ah, there were tanks all over my city
 There was war outside the windows and children in the streets
 They're throwing rocks at the tanks, a riot
 Ain't got a passport, ain't got my real name
 Ain't got a chance, sport, at fortune and 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 LA
 '68, it broke up the Yardbirds, we were broke as well
 Took it underground, MC 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
 Like blind denied, exiled this castaway
 Blind alley in New York City, in a foreign embrace
 If you're hungry, you're not too particular about what you'll taste
 Men in uniform gave me vinegar, spoon of misery
 But what the hell, I fell, I fell, it doesn't matter to me
 Citizen ship, we got memories
 Citizen ship, we got pain
 Cast adrift from the citizen ship
 Like blind denied, exiled this castaway
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 I was caught like a moth with its wings outta sync
 Cut the chord, overboard, just a refugee
 Lady Liberty, lend a hand to me, I've been cast adrift
 Adrift, adrift, adrift, adrift, adrift, adrift
 On the citizen ship they got memories
 Citizen ship, we got pain
 Lose your grip on the citizen ship
 You're cast, you're castaway
 On the citizen ship you got memories
 Citizen ship, you got pain
 Citizen ship, you got identity
 A name, a name, a name, a name (mother)
 A name (father), a name (father), a name, a name, yeah (father)
 What's your name, son? (New York Ciity)
 What's your name?
 What's your name?
 Your name, what a name you got?
 I got nothing, no, I got nothing in this world
 Document that, Jersey
 Give me your tired, your poor
 Gimme your huddled masses
 Your war torn, all your tempest seas
 Give me your war torn on your shores of dawn
 Lift up your dawn, your dawn to let me
 Ah, it's all mythology