There are men lost in jail Crowded fifty to a room Theres 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 Five hundred kinds of cigarettes This freedom of choice in the USA drives everybody crazy But in Acapulco Well, they dont give a damn About kids selling Chiclets with no shoes on their feet See how we are, hey man, whats in it for me? 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 is coming through So you all gotta move This bottom rung aint no fun at all Cause no fires and rock houses And grapeflavored rat poison Are the new trinity for this socalled 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 Im trying to write this letter to you About how much I care and why I just cant be there To draw your bath and comb and comb your hair Last night in a nightspot Where things arent so hot My friend said, I met a boy and Im in love I said, Oh really, whats this ones name? She said, His first name is Homeboy I said, Could his last name be Trouble? See how we are, ah Homeboy, isnt that a Mexican 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, oh see how we are
see, twenty, homeboy, year, sing