[ti:Hold On (LP Version)]
[ar:lou reed]
[al:New York]
[00:05.03]There's blacks with knives and whites with clubs
[00:20.65]Fighting in Howard Beach
[00:23.30]There's no such thing as human rights
[00:25.50]When you walk the N.Y.streets
[00:28.01]A cop was shot in the head by a 10 years old kid
[00:30.02]Named Buddah in Central Park last week
[00:32.29]The fathers and daughters are lined up by the coffins
[00:34.99]By the Statue of Bigotry, hey
[00:37.42]You better hold on
[00:40.16]Something's happening here
[00:41.86]You better hold on
[00:44.21]Well, I meet you in Tompkins Square
[00:46.10]The dopers sent a message to the cops last weekend
[00:48.49]They shot him in the car where he sat
[00:50.58]And Eleanor Bumpers and Michael Stewart
[00:53.43]Must have appreciated that
[00:55.97]There's a rampaging rage rising up like a plague
[00:57.86]Of bloody vials washing up on the beach
[00:59.76]It'll take more than the Angels or Iron Mike Tyson
[01:02.81]To heal this bloody breach, hey, hey
[01:04.95]You better hold on
[01:06.24]something's happening here
[01:09.24]You better hold on
[01:11.48]I'm gonna meet you in Tompkins Square
[01:13.73]A junkie ran down a lady a pregnant dancer
[01:16.67]she'll never dance but the baby was saved
[01:18.42]He shot up some China White and nodded out at the wheel
[01:20.97]and he doesn't remember a thing
[01:23.11]They shot that old lady 'cause they thought she was a witness to
[01:25.71]a crime she didn't even see
[01:27.50]Whose home is the home of the brave
[01:30.04]by the Statue of Bigotry, hey
[01:32.24]You better hold on
[01:34.84]something's happening here
[01:36.78]You better hold on
[01:39.05]meet you in Tompkins Square
[01:41.81]You got a black .38 and a gravity knife
[01:44.55]you still have to ride the train
[01:46.59]There's the smelly essence of N.Y. down there
[01:49.29]but you ain't no Bernard Goetz, ah
[01:51.23]There's no Mafia lawyer to fight in your corner
[01:53.72]for that 15 minutes of fame
[01:55.67]The have and the have nots are bleeding in the tub
[01:58.56]that's New York's future not mine, oh
[02:00.85]You better hold on
[02:02.55]something's happening here
[02:05.30]You better hold on
[02:07.89]you better, something's happening here
[02:10.44]Hold on, ooohhh, babe