Brick Thieves

There's something, I mean something really bothering me
I'm talking, I mean I'm trying to tell
Ya, but they don't want me to speak
I've got to tell ya what's happening
On the north side (on the north side)
There's things some people are trying to hide

So you better believe the stories that they tell ya
About the brick thieves (about the brick thieves)
I mean the ones burning the buildings
Down around the city (what a pity)
Then they take all them bricks, what they do, well, they
Sell them around the country in exchange for drug money
Won't somebody please do something about the brick thieves

Policeman, what a man, how he runs around making busts all over town
So he can waltz right back there to the station
Bragging about another one that he brought down
Oh, while men are loading up trucks with
Bricks from buildings that they burned up
I tell you St. Louis, we ought to have had enough

Yes, you better believe the stories that they tell
Ya about the brick thieves (about the brick thieves)
I mean the ones burning the buildings
Down around the city (what a pity)
Yes, then they take all them bricks, boy, what they do, you know
They sell them around the country in exchange for drug money
Won't somebody please do something about the brick thieves

So you better believe all the stories
Yes, you better believe all the stories they tell ya
About the brick thieves (about the brick thieves)
Oh, I do mean the ones burning the
Buildings down around the city (what a pity)
Yes, then they take all them bricks, what they do, you know
They sell them around the country in exchange for drug money
Won't somebody please do something
Right now you ain't doing nothing
Won't somebody please do something about the brick thieves