Abney Park - The Change Cage lyrics

I take a steam train to work Just like the one my father took And I pa** over the walls I see the people as I look I see--there's the block For folks with yellow skin There's the block for folks who have no chin There's the block for me and all my kin But over there is the change cage and we throw the rebels in I work the change cage Here on our side of the wall And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall Here on our side of the wall And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall Walls of iron bolted with steel Two miles high, that should hide how we feel And in the city we've walled off each block This should work to segregate any racial melting pot Long ago we learned of the trouble When a man steps out of his life's plastic bubble So we walled off the city, caged thoughts that were free And now our lives are safe from any change That could have come between you and me I work the change cage Here on our side of the wall And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall I work the change cage Here on our side of the wall And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall I work the change cage Here on our side of the wall And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall I work the change cage Here on our side of the wall And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall They say an artist from block 616 Revived some old art just for his own kicks. They say his pictures were lewd, They say his women were nude So we throw them inside Well, now, that artist can run, he can hide But sooner or later we'll throw him inside I don't think the people should see, Well, that's not art to me, So we'll throw them inside I work the change cage Here on our side of the wall And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall Here on our side of the wall And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall And I will hold the key And I will hold the key And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall And I will hold the key And I will hold the key And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall And I will hold the key And I will hold the key And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall!