To Love Or Be Alone
Pokey Lafarge
3:58There'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