White Houses

White houses in neat little rows contrasting against the sky

Tumbled down black shacks over the tracks children so hungry they could cry

The chrome the steel the metal dream leaving the teepee to rot

The escapist young mind left behind saving dimes for community pot

You better get straight

Better, better get straight

I mean you better get straight right now

Better get it, you better, better get straight babe

They're crying out for love all the time but they fail to see their

neighbours eyes

The TV is on 6 o'clock news the channel's in full colored lies

The company meets, the President speaks he's young but his bones creak

Young girl dresses for the high school dance and the guy next door is dyin'

for a peek

Get straight

You better, yeah, you better get straight babe

Oh did you get what I said, I said to you

That you, you better, you better get angry

You better, you better get straight

They put a bible in the drawer of the motel room and it's crying out to be read

But it stays right there collecting dust, no one understands what's being said

Lovers make love in comfy boxes, what will tomorrow bring

They've been told that it's wrong but they don't give a damn, soon another

life it will bring

You better get straight baby

Yeah you, you better get straight baby

Oh and I think I better get myself to get it babe

You know what I mean I been bent so very long

I wanna fly right, I wanna do it alright