Ah, 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 throwing rocks at tanks
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
Sixty-eight it broke 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 adrift 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
Lifeline denied, exiled this castaway
Guitar solo over chorus chords
I was caught like a moth with its wings out of 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 we got memories
Citizen ship, we got pain
Lose your grip on the citizen ship
You're cast, you're cast away
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
What's your name, son?
What's your name?
What's your name?
Nothing, I got nothing
Goodbye New Jersey
Give me your tired, your poor
Give me your huddled masses
Your war-torn on your tender seas
Give me your war-torn on your shores at dawn
Lift up your dawn, your dawn lifts me
It's all mythology!