Stranglers - Grand Canyon lyrics

rate me

I've been standing on the poor man side

Looking across the great divide

At the people with the money

But they never look across at me

I see things that you wouldn't believe

The respectable man taking money like a thief

And he don't give a damn

For the mouths he could feed

Grand Canyon. Grand Canyon

The space between us gonna break my heart

There's the man who thinks different from me

So he had me thrown in his jail

He talks a lot about freedom

Then he throws away the key

And here's a man with a different coloured skin

You know he's suspicious of me

He thinks I'll steal his wife

He thinks I'll steal his colour t.v

Repeat chorus

There you are on the other side

Walking away from me

I call to you

But you can't hear the word I say

I'm standing on the poor man side

Looking across the great divide

At the people in the world

But they never look across at me