[ti:Drinking Song From The Home Stretch]
[ar:Mischief Brew]
[al:The Stone Operation]
[00:24.71]It was somewhere in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
[00:29.47]A house was gutted, added onto six times its weight.
[00:33.54]About a week to go until the move-in date,
[00:38.51]And everybody runnin' in a six-day race.
[00:42.34]There was bangin', there was buzzin' everybody on their knees.
[00:47.61]"Runnin' behind," everyone can agree.
[00:51.47]Yet Four O'Clock arrive and someone brought back a case,
[00:56.09]And the power went out in the whole damn place.
[01:00.84]Property is theft until the thieves are away.
[01:04.85]If we did this in a month, we'd be arrested and detained
[01:09.11]For draggin' all our brains beyond the barbed-wire chain
[01:13.97]And drinkin' on private land.
[01:35.82]From the Foreman to the laborers to the migrants to me:
[01:40.48]"Stop drop and wrap up, pull up a bucket, have a seat."
[01:44.46]Tattered T's and ragged jeans all gathered around,
[01:49.03]Finally sayin' somethin' more than, "Move your van, I'm pullin' out."
[01:53.40]And there was something all of us had seen:
[01:57.44]The owner was a creep, something greedy stuck in his teeth.
[02:01.75]You see, anybody that needs a nine-car garage with heat
[02:06.54]Ain't never was and never will be no friend to me.
[02:10.44]We're singin', "Property is theft until the thieves are away!
[02:14.60]If we did this in a month, we'd be arrested and detained
[02:19.02]For draggin' all our brains beyond the barbed-wire chain
[02:23.32]And drinkin' on private land!"
[02:27.78]Well, toss the empties in the garden.
[02:41.01]Maybe leave a cap beneath the root as proof that we exist.
[03:01.92]Well the Foreman and a painter laugh and they find some solid ground;
[03:06.48]Seems they both hail from the same bars, side of tracks and side of town.
[03:09.95]You-know-who makes a right and speeds away.
[03:18.51]Well I say, "Cheers! With our cold sweaty beers!"
[03:27.03]We won't be 'llowed 'round here
[03:31.24]When all those gates close, and then security takes the wheel.
[03:35.10]But that's another time, and we'll be on another job.
[03:40.22]Just don't call me, man, when the joints cracks and your pipes all clog.
[03:43.83]I scrape off my watch, and if the boss calls,
[03:47.74]I'll say: "We're drinkin' on private land!"
[03:55.01]"Property is theft until the thieves are away!
[03:58.68]If we did this in a month, we'd be arrested and detained
[04:02.90]For draggin' all our brains beyond the barbed-wire chain
[04:07.46]And drinkin' on private land!"
[04:11.85]"Property is theft until the thieves are away!
[04:15.67]If we did this in a month, we'd be arrested and detained
[04:20.38]For draggin' all our brains beyond the barbed-wire chain
[04:28.07]And drinkin' on private land!"