Which you hoped killed your loved ones quickly because with no treatment, things could get really gruesome. NYC had terrible problems with poverty, addiction, homelessness, and fuckin AIDS. I was living in the region when it came out. The perfume burned his eyes holding tightly to her thighsĪnd something flickered for a minute and then it vanished and was goneġ989. They wrote a book about it, they said it was like ancient Rome Manhattan's sinking like a rock, into the filthy Hudson what a shock I'll take Manhattan in a garbage bag with Latin written on it that says I was dancing when his brains ran out on the street This cop who died in Harlem you think they'd get the warnin' Those Italians need a lesson to be taught
I betcha I could hit that light with my one good arm behind my backīrother give me another tote those downtown hoods are no damn good Outside the streets were steaming the crack dealers were dreaming
The sink that by his bed gives off a stink Romeo Rodriguez squares his shoulders and curses Jesus Inside his pants he hides a mop to clean the mess that he has dropped That he has left his soul in someone's rented car Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty mapīetwixt between the East and west he calls on her wearing a leather vestĪ diamond crucifix in his ear is used to help ward off the Fear