Brick Town Kids

We used to climb the walls
Of factories and shopping malls
Jump from roof to roof and fall
Off the bridge in Haverstraw
Church bells rang but we played deaf
Belts swang across our backs
Neighbors cursed under their breath
Years and years of ignorance
We were the brick town kids
The derelicts
The ones they wished
Didn’t exist
We were the brick town kids
The immigrants
We fought for kicks
With bloody fists
Blue collars turned grey
Jesus never saved the day
Rock & Roll paved the way
For the dreamers to escape
Alcohol flooded the streets
Blood brothers buried too early
Young lovers under the tree
That never grew any leaves
We were the brick town kids
The derelicts
The ones they wished
Didn’t exist
We were the brick town kids
The immigrants
We fought for kicks
With our, with our bloody, with our bloody fists
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