Inner City Spillover

Lying in her bed, a brick fell on her head

Plaster finally crumbled and dropped it's load

Oh, oh, now the building was condemned recycled, used again

The brick that smashed her brain is now a road in Maine



When the pressure is way, way down the water

Comes out brown, it was on television they took her brain uptown

Fearing peace would poison her, some abstract modern saint

A painting or a sculpture or a cultural restraint



Inner City Spillover, where the big time ticks

Royal Rose's ovens, have to warm what the furnace skips

Inner City Spillover, pop the scene

Inner City Spillover, isle of dreams

Inner City Spillover, workmen on the beam



Lying on her bed, a brick fell on her head

You find the ace of hearts and win, it's easy, man

At a higher school of knowledge, they put her brain in college

Replacement parts and slippery cards will come around again



The writings on the wall, statesmen say it all

With the art wars on and the colors crash

Long, long before the fall



One out of these three cards will definitely up the odds

Find the red heart, red to win, drop on in, time out and time in

All the suckers play it again by the Broadway Babies

And the island men and the hotshots gamblin?



Inner City Spillover, pops and picks

Inner City Spillover, where the big time ticks

Inner City Spillover, isle of dreams

Inner City Spillover, workmen on the beam

Inner City Spillover, subway riders fight newsmen



Uncover more horrors to describe okay, sweetheart

Pull over, where'd you learn to drive angels

Eye the people over ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai



Inner City Spillover, where the big time ticks

Royal Rose's ovens have to warm what the furnace skips

Inner City Spillover, pop the scene

Inner City Spillover, workmen on the beam