See How We Are Lyrics

The song See How We Are is performed by X in the album named Beyond and Back: The X Anthology in the year 1997 .



Crowded fifty to a room
There's too many rats in this cage of the world
And the women know their place
They sit home and write letters
And when they visit once a year
Well they both just sit there and stare
See how we are
Gotta keep bars in between us
See how we are
We only sing about it once in every twenty years
See how we are
Oh see how we are
Now there are seven kinds of Coke
500 kinds of cigarettes
This freedom of choice in the USA drives everybody crazy
But in Acapulco
Well they don't give a damn
About kids selling Chiclets with no shoes on their feet
See how we are
And the Mexico City tourist says to the Indian, "Get the f**k out of the
way
See how we are
We only sing about it once in every twenty years
See how we are
Oh see how we are
Now that highway's coming through
So you all gotta move
This bottom rung ain't no fun at all
No fires and rockhouses and grape-flavored rat poison
They are the new trinity
For this so-called community
See how we are
Gotta keep bars on all of our windows
See how we are
We only sing about it once in every twenty years
See how we are
Oh see how we are
Well this morning the alarm rang at noon
And I'm trying to write this letter to you
About how much I care and why I just can't be there
To draw your both and comb your hair
Last night in a nightspot
Where things aren't so hot
My friend said, "I met a boy and I'm in love"
I said, "Oh really... What's this one's name?"
She said, "His first name is Homeboy"
I said "Could his last name be Trouble?"
See how we are
Homeboy... Isn't that a South central gangster name?
See how we are
We only sing about it once in every twenty years
See how we are
Oh see how we are
Yeah see how we are



X - Beyond and Back: The X Anthology

Oct 1997

  1. Los Angeles
  2. The World's A Mess; It's My Kiss
  3. Yr Ignition
  4. Year One
  5. Hungry Wolf
  6. We're Desperate
  7. Beyond & Back
  8. Back 2 The Base
  9. Blue Spark
  10. Some Other Time
  11. Sex And Dying In High Society
  12. Motel Room In My Bed
  13. Heater
  14. The Once Over Twice
  15. Because I Do
  16. In This House That I Call Home
  17. Soul Kitchen
  18. Universal Corner
  19. Delta 88
  20. Real Child Of Hell
  21. I'm Coming Over
  22. White Girl
  23. Nausea
  24. Johny Hit And Run Paulene
  25. Your Phone's Off The Hook, But You're Not
  26. Riding With Mary
  27. Bonus Track 1
  28. The New World
  29. Breathless
  30. Poor Girl
  31. What's Wrong With Me
  32. How I (Learned My Lesson)
  33. The Have Nots
  34. Someone Like You
  35. The Stage
  36. See How We Are
  37. Surprise Surprise
  38. 4th Of July
  39. Arms For Hostages/Country At War
  40. Wild Thing
  41. Burning House Of Love
  42. Devil Doll
  43. True Love
  44. Call Of The Wreckin' Ball
  45. In The Time It Takes
  46. I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
  47. Bonus Track 2

See How We Are