I hope you don't shoot at the terps
I hope you don't stoop to dirty words
I hope you don't send out the birds
When you watch your houses come down
And all the flames shooting around
Up there in the air and down here on the ground
I hope you don't send up the stripes
Or shake your fist down at the night
Or take a list down in sight your eyes
When you watch your houses come down
Never gonna hold your lover's hands in the air again
I hope you don't shoot at the terps
I hope you don't stoop to dirty words
Cause dirty words are only ever heard
But they're not used them stinkin' dirty words
Do you know regrets, have you no regrets?
Cause they didn't know anything
No, they just heard that it was comin' down