Jaya The Cat Lyrics

Album: Unknown

State of Emergency Lyrics

like a shadow in the night 

 swallows up that city light

 like fire in the rain gets put out again

 like a weapon kept concealed

 explosive elements reveal

 a criminal inside of you no ground to stand nothing to lose

 

 the distribution of wealth

 such a fucking scam

 that's why its so hard to survive in this so called promise land

 you gotta do what you got to do to get by

 facilitate that permanent high

 smoke filled lungs inside of you

 its hard to dream of glory when you got something to prove

 sometimes were all victims of depression and unrest

 some people got no heart that's just the way its always been

 some never find what their looking for

 few get what they want and fewer get more

 sometimes you got to cross that line

 when you aint got enough to get by

 

 like an angel lost in hell

 i walk a path i know so well

 i feel lost in a familiar way another memory i cant explain

 cos its the bottle that seems to flow

 through another day of the drunk unknown

 im looking for a fight at 11.15 on a saturday night

 

 wake up on sunday morning

 to the sound of breaking glass & sirens calling

 bricks & bottles in the street

 alert the police, it's a state of emergency

 

 and the traffic lights all go blinking red

 and a voice on the radio says 'get out while you can'

 and in the gridlock panic sets in

 and there ain't no engine built fast enough

 to outride the Armageddon

 and if you don't give it up i'm gonna take it

 and how long did you think you could keep me tricked?

 i'll be cold walking thru the backbay flinging bricks