Jon Lawler - The Girl in the Crowd lyrics

Well she's dressed up in blue for the genius [?] Madison Square Gardens in '92 And she stands on the stage, twenty-five years of age Singing [?] And she cries no tears for the hatred she hears As it cracked down her senses and filled up her ears But who can shout louder the voices of right Or of wrong And she's singing a song by the reggae man In front of twenty thousand ignorant minds 'Cause you can't have freedom of speech in a country Where cash is a king and it's got to be cruel to be kind Could you, the judge and the jury alone Condemn the girl by the microphone And your words they betrayed the very freedom you gained On the ballot note 'Cause you can hide behind your constitution and rules But it's one for the believer and another for the fools And you're bound by the hatred of your barren-minded Fathers and sons And she's singing a song by the reggae man In front of twenty thousand ignorant minds 'Cause you can't have freedom of speech in a country Where cash is a king and it's wrong to be one of kind So the girls and the boys on amphetamine hill Who lived through the bomb and the air raid drill Are locked in their cage of alcohol induced middle age And it seems clear to me that no man is free And the truth sometimes is the enemy You've had so many faces it's getting hard to feel And even harder to figure out which one of them's real And she's singing a song by the reggae man In front of twenty thousand ignorant minds 'Cause you can't have freedom of speech in a country Where cash is the king and you've got to be cruel to be kind