Fort Mac Gen-x

Verse 1

Red clay dust on a government lawn

Six pools deep and a skating rink long

No fences between the colors and creeds

Just kids on bikes and a pocket of needs

Verse 2

Mama worked the clinic daddy pulled the night

We ate what we had and we called it alright

The brass ran the numbers the way that they do

We were lab rats in sneakers with nothing to lose

Chorus

We are the water-raised

Fort Mac all-stars

Fist-fighting assholes from yesteryear

We are the water-raised

Half a dozen pools

Taught us everybody bleeds the same here

Verse 3

Muslim and Baptist and Catholic and none

Every one of us loud every one of us young

They handed us strangers and told us to blend

We did it too well now we can't find the end

Chorus

We are the water-raised

Fort Mac all-stars

Fist-fighting assholes from yesteryear

We are the water-raised

Half a dozen pools

Taught us everybody bleeds the same here

Bridge

Some of us traded the playground for pulpits

Some of us bowed to a man in a wig

The bud ain't strong enough to smoke them off our minds

So we lock our own gates and we don't let 'em in

Verse 4

Gen-X on the blacktop we ran our own rules

Leg strong and reckless a pack of young fools

We buried the fences they built in our name

Then some of us dug 'em right back up again

Chorus

We are the water-raised

Fort Mac all-stars

Fist-fighting assholes from yesteryear

We are the water-raised

Half a dozen pools

Taught us everybody bleeds the same here

Outro

Same here

Same here

Mm-hmm

Same here