We Almost Lost Detroit - Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson

It stands out on a highway

Like a Creature from another time

It inspires the babies' questions

«What's that?»

For their mothers as they ride

But no one stopped to think about the babies

Or how they would survive

And we almost lost Detroit

This time

How would we ever get over

Loosing our minds?

Just thirty miles from Detroit

Stands a giant power station

It ticks each night as the city sleeps

Seconds from anniahlation

But no one stopped to think about the people

Or how they would survive

And we almost lost Detroit

This time

How would we ever get over

Over loosing our minds?

The sherrif of Monroe county had

Sure enough disasters on his mind

And what would karen Silkwood say

If she was still alive?

That when it comes to people’s safety

Money wins out every time

And we almost lost Detroit

This time, this time

How would we ever get over

Over loosing our minds?

You see, we almost lost Detroit

That time

Almost lost Detroit

That time

And how would we ever get over…

Cause odds are

We gonna loose somewhere, one time

Odds are

We gonna loose somewhere sometime

And how would we ever get over

Loosing our minds?

And how would we ever get over

Loosing our minds?

Didn’t they, didn’t they decide?

Almost lost Detroit

That time

Damn near totally destroyed

One time

Didn’t all of the world know?

Say didn’t you know?

Didn’t all of the world know?

Say didn’t you know?

We almost lost detroit…