Jackals Gone - Legacy lyrics

rate me

December '61.<br />

my Dad's wages light.<br />

Still on that salary<br />

we, all four, could sleep tight.<br />

<br />

Right now if you drank from<br />

that very same well<br />

you'd need a run of luck<br />

to score a bed in a trick hotel<br />

<br />

Is this the legacy of<br />

too much for too few<br />

that I see?<br />

The kind of legacy that's<br />

tossin' some good men<br />

to their knees<br />

<br />

The 'Great Society's'<br />

maligned concrete cage<br />

sits dead and vacant now -<br />

at least it kept out rain<br />

<br />

With all those corners cut<br />

the cracks grow wide and near<br />

I heard some cash was saved<br />

but where it's gone ain't clear<br />

<br />

Who goes down next I don't know<br />

I don't know nothin' anymore<br />

Tomorrow's legacy that's<br />

layin' in state<br />

awaits reprieve<br />

<br />

I always heard that when a man goes down<br />

you do your best to pick him up<br />

But how can the milk of kindness trickle down<br />

when it's syphoned off and cheats the cup?