rancid - stand your ground lyrics

hold your head up high,
cuz tomorrow you may die,
cuz there's no one safe around here,
no one safe around here.
stand your ground,
til you're the last one in town.

someone that you trust turned out to be a tricker,
smoking cigarettes, getting stoned on liquor,
getting really dizzy, only getting sicker,
small problems now only seem bigger.
america's a safe place,
if you're gonna leave it,
and the rhetoric is there,
if you're gonna read it,
and the huddled masses,
the machines to feed it,
and the rich look down to the rabble to bleed it.

hold your head up high,
cuz tomorrow you may die,
cuz there's no one safe around here,
no one safe around here.
stand your ground,
til you're the last one in town.

oddly enough,
it gets tough when you're running,
so you brush out the homeless,
when they start coming,
and la and broadway, is wicked when they're watching,
and your backup man and your backup man and your backup ain't working.
there's no food, so you're spurred into action,
set up and go to no satisfaction,
ice and snow is the cities bastion,
when you walk in the shadows, girl, there's no protection.

hold your head up high,
cuz tomorrow you may die,
cuz there's no one safe around here,
no one safe around here.
stand your ground,
til you're the last one in town.

[sr talking:]
ok, well,
this is the city of los angeles,
and it never sleeps,
it may look like it,
but it doesn't.
it lives and breathes nocturnally,
so when you've got no place to sleep at night,
and you're all huddled up,
and you're cold,
well, this song goes out to the city's forgotten.
hey, tim, take us on home....

there's and underlying reason, why she can't keep it going,
in the middle of the night,
they found her frozen,
and the wal-mart sign,
keeps on glowing,
and the winds of change keep on blowing.

hold your head up high,
cuz tomorrow you may die,
cuz there's no one safe around here,
no one safe around here.
stand your ground,
til you're the last one in town.