Pulvermacher

Kids today, you know what they all wanna be?

Flash golden, fly a rocket to the moon

When I was a kid, there was this new idea, the sky scraper

That was a rocket to the moon for me

So one day

I told my old man that's what I was gonna be when I grew up

A guy who made up buildings

Great, big, special buildings

"An architect," he said

I didn't know the word, but I said, "Sure, that's it"

And then he asked me, did I know how many architects in America were Jews?

And I said, no, I didn't

And he said he did, none

That in America, being an architect was like bеing in a club

A club with a sign hung on the door

"No Jews allowed"

Hе said, that in America, there were a lot of things Jews weren't allowed to do

And a list, a short list, of things they were

And then, he wrote me out that list and told me to pick something

Which I did

And I've been doing that thing I picked my whole life

With two ideas in mind, to get rich and to get even

Which, at some point, I realized, were actually the same thing

Life's what it is, I've got no complaints

Although, if for some reason I have to walk past the Chrysler Building

I keep my eyes on the sidewalk