Citizen Ship

Oh, it was nothing, it didn't matter to me
Ah, there were tanks all over my city
There was war outside the windows and children in the streets
They're throwing rocks at the tanks, a riot

Ain't got a passport, ain't got my real name
Ain't got a chance, sport, at fortune and fame
And I walk these endless streets, won't you give me a lift?
A lift, a lift on your citizen ship

They were rioting in Chicago, movement in LA
'68, it broke up the Yardbirds, we were broke as well
Took it underground, MC borderline, up against the wall
The wall, the wall, show your papers, boy

Citizen ship, we got memories
Stateless, they got shame
Cast a drift from the citizen ship
Lifeline denied, exiled this castaway

Blind alley in New York City, in a foreign embrace
If you're hungry, you're not too particular about what you'll taste
Men in uniform gave me vinegar, spoon of misery
But what the hell, I fell, I fell, it doesn't matter to me

Citizen ship, we got memories
Citizen ship, we got pain
Cast adrift from the citizen ship
Like blind denied, exiled this castaway
I was caught like a moth with its wings outta sync
Cut the chord, overboard, just a refugee
Lady Liberty, lend a hand to me, I've been cast adrift
Adrift, adrift, adrift, adrift, adrift, adrift

On the citizen ship they got memories
Citizen ship, we got pain
Lose your grip on the citizen ship
You're cast, you're castaway

On the citizen ship you got memories
Citizen ship, you got pain
Citizen ship, you got identity
A name, a name, a name, a name (mother)
A name, a name, a name, a name, yeah (father)

What's your name, son?
What's your name?
What's your name?
Your name, what a name you got?

Nothing, no, I got nothing in this world
Document that, Jersey
Give me your tired, your poor
Gimme your huddled masses
Your war torn, all your tempest seas
Give me your war torn on your shores of dawn
Lift up your dawn, your dawn to me
Ah, it's all mythology