See How We Are Lyrics - Singles - X

There are men lost in jail 

Crowded fifty to a room 

There's too many rats in this cage of the world 

And the women know their place 

They sit home and write letters 

And when they visit once a year 

Well they both just sit there and stare 

See how we are 

Gotta keep bars in between us 

See how we are 

We only sing about it once in every twenty years 

See how we are 

Oh see how we are 

Now there are seven kinds of Coke 

500 kinds of cigarettes 

This freedom of choice in the USA drives everybody crazy 

But in Acapulco 

Well they don't give a damn 

About kids selling Chiclets with no shoes on their feet 

See how we are 

"Hey man, what's in it for me?" 

See how we are 

We only sing about it once in every twenty years 

See how we are 

Oh see how we are 

Now that highway's coming through 

So you all gotta move 

This bottom rung ain't no fun at all 

No fires and rockhouses and grape-flavored rat poison 

They are the new trinity 

For this so-called community 

See how we are 

Gotta keep bars on all of our windows 

See how we are 

We only sing about it once in every twenty years 

See how we are 

Oh see how we are 

Well this morning the alarm rang at noon 

And I'm trying to write this letter to you 

About how much I care and why I just can't be there 

To draw your bath and comb...and comb your hair 

Last night in a nightspot 

Where things aren't so hot 

My friend said, "I met a boy and I'm in love" 

I said, "Oh really... What's this one's name?" 

She said, "His first name is Homeboy" 

I said "Could his last name be Trouble?" 

See how we are 

Ah Homeboy... Isn't that a Mexican name? 

See how we are 

We only sing about it once in every twenty years 

See how we are 

Oh see how we are 

Yeah see how we are