Run for Your Life (Re-Recording) - Eric Burdon

Tension in the city

Danger in the air

I can hear the footsteps of people running scared

Somebody is watching me

I can feel it in my bones

And now the night is callin' me

Callin' me back home

Run for your life

Run to survive

The streets are alive

So you’d better run for your life

Another broken window

Reflects another fight

Another confrontation is being planned tonight

Look!

I don’t wanna be no hero

I just wanna stay alive

Can’t we talk this over

'cause I don’t want to fight

Run for your life

Run to survive

The streets are a Ive

So you’d better run for your life

Keep on runnin, keep on runnin'

'cause they keep on comin' at you

Hatches, ratches, sticks and stones

They don’t care if you’re young or old

Replisants, handguns, shotguns, and rubberbullets

Then they hit you with the TV-reports of the downtrodden

And the opressed

Meanwhile… you’re obsessed

But the fast is it’s you everybody is talking about

Got to keep on running

Cause the people keep on comin'

And they’re comin' after you and me

Got to keep on moving

'cause the shadows keep on moving

And they’re movin' in on you and me

L’m looking for direction and l’m looking for protection

And I want to escape the knife

So you’d better run for your life

Run for your life

Run to survive

The streets are aIive

So you’d better run for your life

Run For Your Life

Yeah!!!