there are men lost in jail crowded fifty to a room there s too many rats in this cage of a world and the women know their place they sit home and write letters then they visit once a year when 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 down in acapulco well they don t give a damn about kids selling chiclets with no shoes on their feet see how we are hey man what s 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 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 bath and comb 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 s homeboy i said could his last name be trouble  see how we are hey girl i wouldn t trust you as far as i could throw you 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 now that highway s coming through so you all gotta move this bottom rung ain t no fun at all cause now fires and rock houses and grape flavored rat poison are the new trinity for this so called community see how we are gotta keep bars on all 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 see how we are yeah see how we are oh see how we are1