Callin out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat?
Summer's here and the time is right for dancin in the street
Chicago
Down in New Orleans
In New York City
We're dancing in the street
It doesn't matter what clothes you wear
Just as long as you are there
So every girl grab a girl everywhere around the world
We're dancing
Dancing in the street
It's an invitation across the nation
A chance for folks to meet
They'll be laugh and singing
And music swinging
Dancing in the street
Sure hot down in LA
Baltimore and DC now
Oakland and the bay
We're dancing in the street how
It doesn't matter how you wear your hair
Just as long as you are there
So every guy grab a guy
Everyone out getting high
They're dancing
In Atlanta
And Alabama
In h-town
They burn it down
In Charlotte
St paul shook
And standing rock
To Lafayette
There're prisoners,
Dirt cheap chattel,
Capital with their hands on gavels
Laborers for their pay dip their noses and turn away.
Armed guards with collared dogs just saving up tryna buy the farm
A generation obsessed with wealth
It's funny how we just repeat ourselves
Am i different?
What's the best I coulda done with my vision?
Find a kinder corporation to rifle it?
Filter it to change where I'm from?
And throw me a little money for a sellable son?
We're dancing on the trash cans
We're flipping over trash cans
Bring your your so called new man
His other women and the children
Tell me now who's left to run the block man?
It's funny how we don't care
It's funny how we worry about what's happening downtown and don't look over here
It's funny how we don't care