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No City for Young Men: The Afterthought Lyrics by Timothy Welbeck

No City for Young Men

2017

Verse 1
I live where patriots put cracks in the Liberty Bell/And vagrants are selling crack in the places we dwell/Instead of bicycles, our kids are playing with shells/Not the clams and mollusks ocean waves will expel/I’m talking Glocks you pop when you’re spraying to kill/You can say what you will, but what I’m saying is real/Jay Elec said it’s “Cecil B, Broad Street/Diamond, Master, North Philly, South Philly, Tasker”/And you don’t even have to go ask ‘em/That’s where shawtys will shoot you on the usual/That’s why I say, part of Philly looks like Falluja/Every where you will go there’s a ghetto that you can know/Even India said, “West Virginia could be Kenya”/And part of Havana reminds her of Savannah/That’s why I use my stanzas, to raise up standards/So we can do what we can, and stop throwing our hands up
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Verse 2
There’s a reason why people without wherewithal lay/In dilapidated buildings filled with aerosol spray/Smog and disease, and the fear of terror all day/Our society has told them that there is their fate/There is their place/There is their way/The beggar and the leper together there with the lame/From the depths of squalor to beds of funeral parlor, the forgotten sons and daughters sequestered away/And fester in decay/Neglected and bearing their shame/But for them a blessing awaits, there is some grace/For on those boulevards, on those streets, deep on the avenues/The Son of God trod, while His feet were passing through/In the Leviathan that thrives to dine on men/The Son of the Most High is nigh to them if they draw nigh to Him/In this godlessness that demolishes the metropolis/The Son of God is, and He walks amongst the populous
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Timothy Welbeck

Timothy Welbeck

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