
Date of issue: 27.04.2000
Record label: Rykodisc
Song language: English
New Street People |
Trapped in skyscraper, office space |
Take your break, escape in haste |
I’d walk a mile for that great taste |
Of my brand I thee sing |
Standing there in pairs and threes |
Chattering teeth and trembling knees |
We French inhale and then we sneeze |
And suddenly it’s Spring |
We’re the new street people |
We’re the ones you see |
Standing outside smoking |
Where the air is free |
So far you’ve had just two today |
Baby, you’ve come a long, long way |
Down forty flights what can I say |
Just to get that hit |
We stand around, the helpless ones |
With the homeless, the winos, the bums |
Reteach us how to suck our thumbs |
Show us how to quit |
Ostracized in restaurants |
Aeroplanes and public haunts |
Deprived of our most precious wants |
That is to say, the weed |
We see the billboards and we long |
To live there, that’s where we belong |
Where looking cool is never wrong |
It’s normal to need |
We’re the new street people |
We’re the ones you see |
Standing outside smoking |
Where the air is free |
Ten thousand toxic natural shocks |
Filter, flavor, flip-top box |
Thank God when it’s five o’clock |
That’s when we go home |
Behind closed doors every night |
Matches flare and lighters light |
There we exercise the right |
To be left alone |
Rooms fill up with acrid haze |
We fill up our favorite ash trays |
It’s just like the good old bad days |
We only err in here |
But tomorrow we’ll be back outside |
Along the street where we can’t hide |
Stripped of dignity and pride |
Sucking cigs in fear |
We’re the new street people |
We’re the ones you see |
Standing outside smoking |
Where the air is free |
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