Graffiti Limbo Lyrics - Singles - 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 

With a big blank wall 

And I can guaran-damn tee ya 

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 

In the underground 

I only speak for myself 

But the word on the street 

Is that the writing's on the wall 

And the cop's on the beat 

I wrote this song for a man named Michael Stewart 

A young black man arrested while writing graffiti 

On a subway wall in New York City 

And while under arrest, surrounded by eleven white transit cops 

Michael Stewart was strangled to death 

And when his case went to court 

Not one cop was found guilty 

Because the coroner lost the evidence 

You see, in order to determine 

That Michael Stewart was strangled to death 

The coroner had to use Michael Stewart's eyeballs 

His eyes, as evidence 

So now when I tell you 

That it was Michael Stewart's eyes 

That the coroner lost, do you know what I mean 

When I tell you that justice is blind? 

You can have your little Style Wars 

You can keep your little dance 

But those crazy writers 

Don't stand a ghost of a chance 

It's, "Color them Cons", Mayor Koch said 

Call it a crime 

It's steer clear of the engineer 

Of the midnight special line