Hold On Lyrics - Reed Lou

There's blacks with knives and whites with guns 

fighting in Howard Beach 

There's no such thing as human rights 

when you walk the N.Y. streets 

A cop was shot in the head by a 10 year old kid named Buddah in 

Central Park last week 

The fathers are lined up by 

the coffins by the Statue of Bigotry 

You better hold on something's happening here 

You better hold on---meet you in Tompkins Square 

The dopers sent a message to the cops last weekend 

They shot him in the car where he sat 

And Eleanor Bumpres and Michael Stewart must have appreciated that 

There's a rampaging rage rising up like a plague of bloody vials 

washing up on the beach 

It'll take more than the Angels or Iron Mike Tyson 

to heal this bloody breach 

A junkie ran down a lady a pregnant dancer 

she'll never dance but the baby was saved 

He shot up some China White and noddet out at the wheel 

and he doesn't even remember a thing 

They shot that old lady 

'cause they thought she was a witness 

to a crime she didn't even see 

Whose home is the home of the brave by the Statue of Bigotry 

You got a black .38 and a gravity knife 

You still have to ride the train 

There's the smelly essence of N.Y. down there 

but you ain't no Bernard Goetz 

There's no Mafia lawyer 

to fight in your corner 

for that 15 minutes of fame 

The have and the have nots are bleeding in the tub 

That's New York's future not mine 

Oh you better hold on---something's happening here.