White Houses-Eric Burdon

[ti:White Houses] [ar:Eric Burdon] [al:Best Of 1966-1968] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]White Houses (白房子) - Eric Burdon [00:10.48]White houses in neat little rows [00:13.07]Contrasting against the sky [00:14.68] [00:15.87]Tumbled down black shacks over the tracks [00:18.68]Children so hungry they could cry [00:21.04] [00:21.79]The chrome the steel the metal dream [00:24.59]Leaving the teepee to rot [00:26.59] [00:27.40]The escapist young mind left behind [00:30.45]Saving dimes for community pot [00:32.36] [00:32.99]You better get straight [00:33.89] [00:37.39]Better better get straight [00:39.76] [00:42.45]I feel you better get straight right now [00:46.46] [00:48.51]Better get better better get straight babe [00:52.05] [00:57.23]They're crying out for love [00:58.88]All the time [01:00.31]But they fail to see the neighbors eyes [01:02.40] [01:03.53]The TV is on 6 o'clock news [01:06.32]And channels in full colored lies [01:08.20] [01:09.38]The company meets the president speaks [01:12.25]He's young but his bones creak [01:14.17] [01:15.04]Young girl dresses for the highschool dance [01:17.91]And the guy next door is dying for a beat [01:21.15]Get straight [01:21.72] [01:24.34]You better yes you better get straight babe [01:28.06] [01:31.43]Did you hear what I said [01:32.94]I said to you that you you better better get straight [01:39.50] [01:40.62]Better better get straight [01:43.28] [02:31.83]They put a bible in a drawer [02:33.32]Of the motel room [02:35.06]And it's crying out to be read [02:36.93] [02:37.87]But it stays right there collecting dust [02:40.93]No one understands what's being said [02:42.87] [02:44.11]Lovers make love in country boxes [02:46.69] [02:47.43]What will tomorrow bring [02:48.88] [02:49.62]They've been told that it's wrong [02:50.92]But they don't give a damn [02:52.85]Soon another life it will bring [02:55.22]You better get straight babe [02:56.78] [02:58.42]Yeah you you better get straight baby