Brick Town Kids - Rene Lopez

We used to climb the walls

Of factories and shopping malls

Jump from roof to roof and fall

Off the bridge in Haverstraw

Church bells rang but we played deaf

Belts swang across our backs

Neighbors cursed under their breath

Years and years of ignorance

We were the brick town kids

The derelicts

The ones they wished

Didn’t exist

We were the brick town kids

The immigrants

We fought for kicks

With bloody fists

Blue collars turned grey

Jesus never saved the day

Rock & Roll paved the way

For the dreamers to escape

Alcohol flooded the streets

Blood brothers buried too early

Young lovers under the tree

That never grew any leaves

We were the brick town kids

The derelicts

The ones they wished

Didn’t exist

We were the brick town kids

The immigrants

We fought for kicks

With our, with our bloody, with our bloody fists

Sha la la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la la