Shakedown in Juarez

It was the summer of confusion back in 2006

There was a stench on the air

Down by the border some kids

With only one thing in question

Would they make it through the night?

Or end up in a suitcase on front of El Paso Times

See times they were changing

There was violence in the streets

Down in Juarez Mexico getting rowdy off the beat

With tequila in the air and booze in our system

It was a shakedown in Juarez you couldn't have missed them

It was a shakedown in Juarez

It was a shakedown in Juarez

Rolling across the boarder around four a.m.

We should have known we had it coming when we couldn't get in

So we clipped on through the fence and slipped right past the feds

Down Avenida, Past the clubs and right on past the stench

See there was something in the air as we walked that night

On down the main strip no more lights and only devils in sight

Anyone who dares enter finds them selves in some danger

Read the cardboard box as things they only got stranger

Whistles in the night night that signaled we were alone

Up pulls a paddy wagon with 666 on the door so

Hands above our heads and backs against the wall

Out comes a knife just one excuse was needed that's all

How much for one ticket and yeah you know what I mean

How much it gonna cost to set these here gringos free?

A hundred bucks a pop and you can save your skin

It was a shakedown in Juarez or never see them again

Moving moving

Jumping jumping in the streets and

Running running

Keeping up the pace

Hoping hoping

For a brave new future

Dying dying

Like it's the only way

Shakedown yeah you'd better keep it moving.