Patti Smith Group - Citizen Ship lyrics

It was nothing it didn't matter to me
There were tanks all over my city
There was water outside the windows
And children in the streets were
Throwing rocks at tanks
Ain't got a passport ain't got my real name
Ain't got a chance sport at fortune or fame
As I walk these endless streets
Won't you give me a lift
A lift a lift on your citizen ship
They were rioting in Chicago movement in LA
'68 it broke the Yard-birds we
Were broke as well took it underground
MC borderline up against the wall the wall
The wall the wall show your papers boy
Citizen ship we got memories
Stateless they got shame
Cast adrift from the citizen ship
Lifeline denied exile this castaway

In New York city in a foreign embrace
If you’re hungry you’re not too particular
About how or what you taste man in uniform
Give me vinegar spoon of misery
But what the hell i fell, I fell
It doesn’t matter to me

Citizen ship we got memories
Stateless they got shame
Cast adrift from the citizen ship
Lifeline denied exile this castaway

I was caught up like a moth
With it's wings out of sync
Cut the cord overboard just a refugee
Lady liberty lend a hand to me
I've been cast adrift adrift
On the citizen ship we got memory
Citizen ship you got pain
Citizen ship you got identity
Cast adrift from the citizen ship
Lifeline denied exile this castaway

A name a name a name
What's your name son new York
City what's your name
What's your name what's your
Name name wake up
New Jersey give me your tired your poor
Give me your huddled masses
Your war torn on your tender seas
Give me your war torn on your shoes of dawn
Lift up your golden lamp for me
Ah, it's all mythology