Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Joe Jackson
Canonical path: /joe-jackson/target
Related lyric paths: 6
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Target
Read Target lyrics by Joe Jackson on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Target
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Uptown - downtown
No one's fussy I'm a target
Black, white - day, night
No one's fussy I'm a target
Somebody say I'm crazy
Walking in this neighborhood
Say you can't be too careful
But that won't do no good
I'm no one special
But any part of town
Someone could smile at me then
Shake my hand then gun me down
Uptown - downtown
No one's fussy I'm a target
Black, white - day, night
No one's fussy I'm a target
Somebody say I'm crazy
Living in this crazy town
I say maybe you're just lazy
Got to either swim or drown
I know what I'm doing
I'm happy day to day
But then something happens
Takes my nerve away
Uptown - downtown
No one's fussy I'm a target
Black, white - day, night
No one's fussy I'm a target
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Joe Jackson performs "Target", and this lyric page sits inside the Joe Jackson catalog on LyroVerse.
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