Patrick Dodd

Lyrics

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