White houses in neat little rows
Contrasting against the sky
Tumbled down black shacks over the tracks
Children so hungry they could cry
The chrome, the steel, the metal dream
Leaving the teepee to rot
The escapist young mind, left behind
Saving dimes for community pot
You better get straight
Better, better get straight
I feel you better get straight right now
Better get straight, babe
They're crying out for love all the time
But they fail to see the neighbors eyes
The TV is on, 6 o clock news
And channels in full colored lies
The company meets, the president speaks
He's young but his bones creak
Young girl dresses for the high school dance
And the guy next door is dying for a beat
Get straight, you better
Yes, you better get straight, babe
Did you hear what I said?
I said to you, that you, you better get straight
They put a bible in a drawer of the motel room
And it's crying out to be read
But it stays right there, collecting dust
No one understands what's being said
Lovers make love in country boxes
What will tomorrow bring?
They've been told that it's wrong
But they don't give a damn
Soon another life it will bring
You better get straight, babe
Yeah, you better get straight, baby
White Houses
Eric Burdon
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Lyrics by Eric Burdon
27 Forever Anything As the Years Go Passing By Before You Accuse Me Bo Diddley Special Boom Boom Crawling King Snake Crawling King Snake [#] Devil and Jesus Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood Driftin'/Geronimo's Last Stand Help Me Girl Home Dream Hotel Hell House of the Rising Sun I Used to Be an Animal It Hurts Me Too It's My Life It's Too Late Kingsize Jones Magic Mountain Man-Woman Medicine Man Memorial Day Monterey Mother Earth Old Habits Die Hard Power Company Ring of Fire San Franciscan Nights See See Rider Sky Pilot Soul Of A Man Spill the Wine Spill the Wine [Live] Stole My Heart Away (First Sight) Stop Take It Easy The Black Plague The House of the Rising Sun The Road To Love Somebody Tobacco Road Wait Wall of Silence We Gotta Get Out of This Place We Gotta Get Out of This Place [From Farenheit 9/1... We Gotta Get Out of This Place [from the Movie Far... We Gotta Get Out of This Place [Live] We Gotta Get Out of This Place [Live] [Live] When I Was Young When I Was Young (Medley) Winds of Change
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