Song | Graffiti Limbo |
Artist | Michelle Shocked |
Album | Short Sharp Shocked |
Lyrics:Michelle Shocked Music:Michelle Shocked | |
Lay down your burdens | |
Lay down your cares | |
The Holy Virgin, she's gonna greet you up there | |
With a big can of spray paint, yeah | |
And a big blank wall | |
And I can guaran-damn-tee you | |
There ain't no cops around at all | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
Where do you go? | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
When there ain't no justice | |
I only speak for myself | |
But the word around town | |
Is that something's shaking, yeah | |
In the underground | |
I only speak for myself | |
But the word on the street | |
Is that the writing's on the wall, yeah | |
And the cop's on the beat | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
Where do you go? | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
When there ain't no justice | |
(Now, I wrote this song for Michael Stewart. Michael Stewart | |
was a young black graffiti artist who was arrested while | |
writing graffiti on a subway wall in New York City. | |
While under arrest, in the presence of eleven white transit | |
cops, Michael Stewart was strangled to death. | |
When his case was heard by the Grand Jury, you know, not one | |
cop was found guilty. The coroner had lost the evidence and | |
those cops are on the streets again.) | |
Ah, you can have your little style wars, boys | |
Yes, and you can keep your little dance | |
But those crazy writers they don't stand a ghost of a chance | |
No, it's 'Colar them cons' | |
That's what Mayor Koch said | |
He said, 'Call it a crime' | |
And now it's steer clear of the engineer on that Midnight Special Line | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
Where do you go? | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
When there ain't no justice | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
Where do you go? | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
When there ain't no justice | |
Ohhhh... |
Lyrics: Michelle Shocked Music: Michelle Shocked | |
Lay down your burdens | |
Lay down your cares | |
The Holy Virgin, she' s gonna greet you up there | |
With a big can of spray paint, yeah | |
And a big blank wall | |
And I can guarandamntee you | |
There ain' t no cops around at all | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
Where do you go? | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
When there ain' t no justice | |
I only speak for myself | |
But the word around town | |
Is that something' s shaking, yeah | |
In the underground | |
I only speak for myself | |
But the word on the street | |
Is that the writing' s on the wall, yeah | |
And the cop' s on the beat | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
Where do you go? | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
When there ain' t no justice | |
Now, I wrote this song for Michael Stewart. Michael Stewart | |
was a young black graffiti artist who was arrested while | |
writing graffiti on a subway wall in New York City. | |
While under arrest, in the presence of eleven white transit | |
cops, Michael Stewart was strangled to death. | |
When his case was heard by the Grand Jury, you know, not one | |
cop was found guilty. The coroner had lost the evidence and | |
those cops are on the streets again. | |
Ah, you can have your little style wars, boys | |
Yes, and you can keep your little dance | |
But those crazy writers they don' t stand a ghost of a chance | |
No, it' s ' Colar them cons' | |
That' s what Mayor Koch said | |
He said, ' Call it a crime' | |
And now it' s steer clear of the engineer on that Midnight Special Line | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
Where do you go? | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
When there ain' t no justice | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
Where do you go? | |
Graffiti Limbo | |
When there ain' t no justice | |
Ohhhh... |