Seized Up

<br>My friend Steve pissed away all his years cuz he<br>was slaving building cars blood and sweat upon<br>the gears all of his off time spent at the bar<br>years and years of nothing but sorrow I wonder<br>how can he be content fucking just to wake up<br>tomorrow he`ll do it all over again gonna<br>wake up tomorrow and do it again<br><br>[Chorus:]<br>On the streets of Detroit on the streets<br>of this town all their dreams are destroyed once<br>you`re in you can never get out<br><br>See Reggie sleeps on Jefferson Avenue on the<br>courthouse heat exhausts he`s no different than me<br>or you in 1984 he got layed off a motor city dead of<br>we shared a joke and I gave him some change<br>wonder is there a hope his future I don`t know I<br>never saw him again don`t think that I`ll ever see him again<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>I`m gonna burn it down [4x]<br>My father put in his best year yeah working for one<br>of the big 3 still remember my mother`s tears we`re<br>born to die in a factory coming home at dawn early<br>break see he`s strung out from the late night shift<br>pills and powder to stay awake I see his bottles are empty again<br>empty again prescription bottles are empty again<br><br>[Chorus 2x]<br>Sometimes I want to burn it down