Rancid - Stand Your Ground lyrics

Hold your head up high
'Cause tomorrow you may die
'Cause there's no one safe around here
No one's safe around here stand your ground
Till you're the last one in town

Yeah, someone that you trust turned
Out to be a tricker
Smoking cigarettes, getting stoned on liquor
Getting really dizzy, only getting sicker
Small problem now only seem bigger

America's a safe place if
You're gonna leave it
And the rhetoric is there if
You're gonna read it
And the huddled masses the machine defeated
And the rich look down to
The rabble to bleed it

Hold your head up high
'Cause tomorrow you may die
'Cause there's no one safe around here
No one's safe around here stand your ground
Till you're the last one in town

Oddly enough
It gets tough when you're running
So you brush off the homeless
When they start coming in LA, Broadway
It's wicked when they're watching
And your backup, man, your backup, man
Your backup ain't working

There's no food
So you're spurred into action
Set up and go to no satisfaction
Ice and snow is the city's fashion
When you walk in the shadows, girl
There's no protection

Hold your head up high
'Cause tomorrow you may die
'Cause there's no one safe around here
No one's safe around here stand your ground
Till you're the last one in town

OK, well this is the city of Los Angeles
And it never sleeps it may look like it
But it doesn't
It lives and breathes nocturnally
So when you've got no place to sleep at night
And you're all huddled up and you're cold
Well, this song goes out
To the city's forgotten
Hey, Tim, take us on home

Underlying reason
Well she can't keep it going
In the middle of the night
They found her frozen
And the Walmart sign keeps on glowing
And the winds of change keep on blowing

Hold your head up high
'Cause tomorrow you may die
'Cause there's no one safe around here
No one's safe around here stand your ground
Till you're the last one in town