Cage People
High above the streets of a big city
Hidden far from the truth
Lies a dark and dismal place
Inhumanity
Wall lizards
Lice and rats
Cockroaches
Modern livin'
Stacked inside rooms where no one sees
Live the cage people
Some twenty to a room, a dark secret
Welcome to Hong Kong
Yan Chi Leung is mentally ill
Residing in a wire cage
Housed in the bottom of a stack of three
Considers himself lucky
Wall lizards
Lice and rats
Cockroaches
Modern livin'
Tai Lun Po seventy nine
Has lived here for thirty years
Shares his toilet with nineteen more
Choking back the tears
Greedy - Landlords - Exchange - Greenbacks
While their - Tenants - Live in - Squalor
Rabbit - Hutches - Full of - Misery
Human - Crisis - Twisted - City
Tens of thousands living in squalor
Officials look the other way
Alternative is life on the streets
No other place to stay
Wall lizards
Lice and rats
Cockroaches
Modern livin'
Uncomfortable they cannot sleep
Appallingly cramped and fetid
One cage dweller told the Asia Times
Life here is morbid
Greedy - Landlords - Exchange - Greenbacks
While their - Tenants - Live in - Squalor
Rabbit - Hutches - Full of - Misery
Human - Crisis - Twisted - City
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