Staten Island Blues

from Long Way to California by Whitney Lockert

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How’s a man supposed to make it happen in this town?
There just aren’t that many chances, when you look around
What’s a man supposed to do?
Ain’t no cure for the Staten Island Blues

Hey man, why you coming round hassling me?
Ain’t there someplace more important that you could be?
What’s a man supposed to do?
Ain’t no cure for the Staten Island Blues

Broken windows, broken lights on the stairs
Another black man down, like anybody really cares.
What are you gonna do?
Ain’t no cure for these New York Blues

It’s just another day in the world, I suppose
I hate to think that it’s just the way that it goes
What are we gonna do?
There ain’t no cure for the other man’s blues.

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from Long Way to California, track released July 15, 2022

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