Patrick Dodd and Friends: FREE MUSIC

WHO GIVES A DAMN?

(Patrick Dodd and Small Revolutions)

Who Gives A Damn

In the heat of the jungle
In the deep urban nite
See him leanin� on the wall
Just waitin for a fight
He�s got no illusions
It�ll all turn out right
But who gives a damn anyway
Who gives a damn anyway

He�s just a tragic example
Of the current modern hip
Got a few glib statements
He�s bound to let slip
To warn you about the death and violence
He carries on his hip
But who gives a damn anyway
Who gives a damn anyway

Breakdown

Now his mamma don�t understand him
And his pappa�s long gone
He was born a stonedead victim
Of the street he�s walkin on
He�s never gonna know
When he�s seen his last dawn
But who gives a damn anyway
Tell me who gives a damn anyway

See he was born with one brother
Already in the grave
And he was born too late
For any social system to save
He�ll spend his short life confused
About the master and the slave
But who gives a damn anyway
Who gives a damn anyway

Breakdown

He saw the vultures first gather
On the day he was three
And he found out later that�s
As picturesque as it would be
And that down here darlin
Only their foods really free
But who gives a damn anyway
Who gives a damn anyway

I mean if Jesus come down here
He better be packin heat
�Cause you�re the winner or your dead
When you cruise out on these streets
And down here baby
Even saints end up under sheets
But who gives a damn anyway
Who gives a damn anyway

Breakdown

See this american dreamer
He�s a nitemare from hell
He�s the prototype of the stereotype
We all know to well
He�s the real bottom line
To everything we buy and sell
But who gives a damn anyway
Who gives a damn anyway

And when the poor boy dies
Just leave the grave stone blank
�Cause there�s too many fuckin� people
We really have to thank
From the first nail in his arm
To the first wine that he drank
Tell me who gives a damn anyway
Who gives a damn anyway
Tell me who gives a damn anyway
Who gives a damn anyway

Breakdown