Lifeline Lyrics - The Rainwater Lp - Citizen Cope

When you're so long gone, you can't help yourself 

When you're so dead wrong 

Let alone no one else 

Well the children still dying in the streets 

The babies still living with disease 

The cops got guns, the poor folks got sons 

Who work for Mr. Franklin every week 

If you've come looking for hard times 

Hard times ain't hard to find 

Cause we've been given that lifeline 

Only once in a lifetime 

Baby we were born 

Maybe we were born 

To be sure ... to endure 

When the storm comes 

Got them sad eyes 

Got them cat eyes 

Got your angels tired 

From saving your life 

So you would be best 

To contain yourself 

Before you end up killed 

His bare feet 

Touch her bare feet 

The air breaths sweet 

At the mountains peak 

And I forgot 

What the wise man said 

About that ancient thread 

Baby we were born 

Maybe we were born 

To be sure ... to rejoice 

When it succumbs