Joe Bruce & 2nd Avenue: America (what's the price you pay) [lyrics]

Joe Bruce & 2nd Avenue: America (what's the price you pay) [lyrics]

Joe Bruce & 2nd Avenue

America (what's the price you pay)

He's got lots of money

She's got her diamond rings

They sympathize with their lies

In the ghetto of palm springs

From the dark streets down in Detroit

To Miami's cocaine blues

They drive the big Mercedes Benz

In alligator shoes

Oh, what's the price you pay for living in America

Do you close your eyes when you wanna be free

If this is the price you pay for living in America

Mercy, mercy me...oh say can you see

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Bag lady down on Broadway

Looking for a place to stay

While the east side high and mighty

Are looking the other way

On Pennsylvania Avenue

They do the best they can

To save us from the killing gun

It's getting out of hand

Oh, what's the price you pay for living in America

Do you close your eyes when you wanna be free

If this is the price you pay for living in America

Land of equality...oh say can you see

Gotta lend a hand, gotta share the land

That's the way it should be

Give a little you, I'll give a little me

Oh, don't you ever sell her cheap

Oh, what's the price you pay for living in America

Do you close your eyes when you wanna be free

If this is the price you pay for living in America

Mercy, mercy me...oh say can you see

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Gotta lend a hand, gotta share the land

That's the way it should be

Give a little you, I'll give a little me

America, can you see