You don't know me but I'm your brother
I was raised here in this living hell
You don't know my kind in your world
Fairly soon the time will tell

You, telling me the things
You're gonna do for me
I ain't blind and I don't like
What I think I see
Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets
Takin it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets

Take this message to my brother
You will find him everywhere
Wherever people live together
Tied in poverty's despair

You, telling me the things
You're gonna do for me
I ain't blind and I don't like
What I think I see
Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets