• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Canarsie - Frank Zappa
• Canaries - Kind Of Like Spitting
• W.G.O.N.R.S. - Big Daddy Kane
• Canarsie High - Ill Bill
• Kini - Rossa

[basic track:
Guitar solo probably from Easy Meat
Hammersmith Odeon, London
February 19, 1979
engineer: Mick Glossop
overdubs:
Village Recorders
Spring, 1979
engineer: Joe Chiccarelli
FZ lead guitar
Warren Cuccurullo electric sitar
Patrick O'Hearn bass
Vinnie Colaiuta drums]
Canarsie, where everyone looks the same . . .

Make what you can out of nothing
Keep bluffing your way to extinction
You're a sick fuck to think
That this, unlike anything else, will last forever
Building rock anthems a jigsaw exterior
You see what you miss
But you can't stand to be near her
It's bigger than that you realize
But short-sighted impulses own what's left of your dignity
Tell yourself quietly don't plow the field yet
You're waiting to grow some new life from retrospect
You know free agency pays little in the long run
But you just don't feel likt your legs aren't that tired yet
Friends and go-betweens
Sing like canaries crushed in leaves
This is the thanks you get
Somewhere that's sweet
Maybe someday we will meet
And I can thank you without strings
All these befores that get drilled on long after
It's all just leverage when you're sure that it's over
The street goes blurry like a movie that you saw once
Minutes freeze but you can't collect the corners still
She used to whisper you name like a refrain
And when she held you, you know, you felt safer
But your demons are fucking huge
You stack your deck to lose
You say there's nothing you can do
Well we all know that you're lying
Friends and go-betweens
Sing like canaries crushed in leaves
This is the thanks you get
You get what you put in
I guess that's bullshit in the end
Written under fluorescent lights

[Big Daddy Kane]
People people, we gotta get over
before we go under, and I wonder
why we can't find a little piece of mankind
Instead of always step back, gimme my damn nine
Livin the thug, like the shoot up the drug type
They love to hear the people sayin, "Yo that kid is bugged right?"
Just a game, so please, out here men die
The average black man today don't make it to see twenty-five
Cause someone else got the clock rocked
Tryin to get the neighborhood locked, to be the new man on the block
But if you asked me who's the man I'm like, "You tell me?
I don't know, Ed Lover, Dr. Dre and Heavy D?"
I got my mind on comin up, if not in first place
then damnit I plan to be the first runner up
But it seems, I got a lot of problems under my belt
and everday I gotta ask myself
[Scoob]
Ah what's goin on, in our society
What's goin on, in a de country
What's goin on, in your community
What's goin on, tell me
[reggae chat] - can't translate
[Big Daddy Kane]
I seen a kid freshly dipped with mad gold
Fifteen years old, with plenty drugs bein sold
But then somebody caught him for his Air Jordans
his drugs the cash and the jewels he was sportin
You wanna call your girl a B-I-T-C-H
You can't appreciate so now she's humpin your man, then she ain't
Cause when you teach her that hoe mentality
They accept that as reality and give all your friends the skin
You need to show some love for your people
All men are created equal, that's why with everybody I always
spread love, and keep my pockets full of dol-dollars
But check it out now
We're not the uncivilized, the Kane ?
So let's get it together, man we did it when we were slaves
Instead of always tryin to blame someone else
Take a look around, and ask yourself
[Scoob]
Ah what's goin on, in your community
What's goin on, in a dis country
What's goin on, in our society
What's goin on, whoahhhh
[reggae chat] - can't translate
[Big Daddy Kane]
Nowadays it's all about provin you ain't nuttin soft
And everybody's always talkin about bustin off
But that ain't where we gotta go, kid we can throw
and handle this thing like Holyfield and blow
Then when we get it off our chest, let's put it to rest
and try to make some money progress
Because if I got a dollar, and you got ten
and you can get a hundred from a friend if five others kick in
Shoot, we can take that stack and put it back
in a community that's black, to make our people attract
like somethin magnetic, cause word is bond it's pathetic
We always talkin about this piece of the pie
but it seems we can't get it
Unless we field the life of a drug dealer
and start stellin llello but you know where they go
up to the penile, because they chose to be wild
And now you're upstate kid, uh, waitin patiently to see trial
Now let that whole gangsta route slide
There's too much money and skins here on the outside
for me to ever let my freedom go
Cause I got mine, now get yous, and let me know
[Scoob]
Ah what's goin on, in our society
What's goin on, when you nah haf no money
What's goin on, people on the street
Whoahhh, why is it so..

(Verse 1)
Young mother smoke crack while her baby cries
Young brother sell crack, carry baby nines
Baby-faced gangsters wild out commit crazy crimes
Taking anything they want without shame or praig
Straight bullet hit bring momma Bed-Stuy
Led fly, final destination her death arrives
But she in the wrong place or she meant to die?
And whoever responsible they never find
Fuck flipping burgers, serving milk-shakes and fries
Kids committing murders living in these last days and times
White kids, black kids any race or price
Shooting in the high school Satan in they minds
We see everything and yet we forever blind
Society turn away you, protect your eyes
Like a horror movie but you can’t press rewind
Bare witness to beyond of it, i step aside
(Hook)2X
All we learned how to live and learn how to die
Building nuclear weapons and learn how to fly
I never graduated high-school I got my GED in tenth grade
And ran around Canarsie High
(Verse 2)
Young baby girl gave birth to baby girl
Thirteen brought a little baby in this crazy world
I’ve seen the same story every block, every borough
Every town same situation very through
Very sad baby girl never knew a dad
Broken home, broken soul ready to attack
Young dad doesn’t even know that he’s a father
And some dude but don’t care for kid even bother
Plenty good parents to a bad situations
Young dad went to war in the destination
Proud American that wanted to be participate
Sent home in a box or in a crippled state
We see everything and yet we forever blind
Society turn away you, protect your eyes
Like a horror movie but you can’t press rewind
Bare witness to beyond of it, i step aside
(Hook)2X
All we learned how to live and learn how to die
Building nuclear weapons and learn how to fly
I never graduated high school I got my GED in tenth grade

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