Lullaby For The Working Cla** - Inherent Song lyrics

Can one articulate such rage As loudspeaker flailing Distress and foreboding? The building is burning And a dog is howling at an ambulance pa**ing There's a riot in the street below Young men collide together In the waning moonlight Cars speed recklessly by As an old man bangs on a newspaper dispenser Mimicking a drunken heartbeat I'm not afraid In the hot July of the city night Bats will strike mosquitoes In the haze of the floodlights Pointed up at the cathedral A psalm resonates a dream recurring: The first native tying a hide to a drum And lifting a voice to mimic the cicada