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Don't Call the Cops
01:21
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Trained with prejudice ingrained
To uphold the status quo
Protect and serve the wealthy class
Four horsemen in the shadows
Harbingers using deadly force
The arm of a state with no remorse
Don't call the fucking cops
They'll fucking kill you and they'll call if self defense
Civil military complex
Governed like a police state
Suppress attempts to pull us out
Oppressive tactics regulate
They'll fucking kill you and they call it self defense
Call you a criminal and make up an offense
Backed by a system that's designed to give consent
It isn't safe to be outside
They don't care if you comply
It isn't safe to be alive
They don't give a fuck if you die
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2. |
Wealth in Chains
01:30
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Tear down these fucking walls
Rip out the fucking veins
Cut the head from the body
We never left the chains
Another profit system
Oppression in design
Victimize populations
School to prison pipeline
Sentries in the street
enforce prejudice beliefs
Place private property above me
Soldiers march to the beat
of racist beliefs
And target marginalized minorities
A past fiction informs present policy
This is an extended slavery
Front of the pack
in prisoners
Police the world
our signature
Tactics of war
followed us here
But the police still act out of fear
Born as a criminal
Born as invisible
Incarcerate-
the wealthy class
That built these walls
upon our backs
Incarcerate-
the wealthy class
That built these walls
to make some cash
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3. |
Kill Whiteness
02:09
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This is really happening
It all fell apart
We took several steps back instead of a fresh start
We act out of fear
Afraid to fail
This fragile support system finally lifts its veil
Was born into this alternate reality
I woke up once the temperature began to change
No longer able to ignore the imbalance
For every success always comes at the expense
Liberated from me
The one who did not want to see
Violence from the past
Unknowingly left from the debris
I can't go back and help anyone that I hurt
I can't go back and fix anything left broken
This is the ending
The end for you
My last redemption
Is saved for you
I'll fucking kill you
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4. |
Thoughts and Prayers
02:29
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Repeating empty words
Relying on deflection
Duplicitous response
Toe the line until the next election
buying time until attention runs out
Endless stream of vapid distractions
Paid to keep the peace and get out of the way
Perpetuation that requires inaction
It dies down then it happens again
Another shooter out for revenge
On a system that will always win
A machine that profits at our expense
Recycle empty words
The power of deflection
Focus on the next scare
Cover up the infection
Place the blame on another scapegoat
Continue to demonize mental illness
Toxicity trickles from the top
A culture that encourages this sickness
Sales climb alongside the death toll
Fight for the country's fallen soul
We climb deeper into this hole
A fractured mess on the payroll
There is a way-
to tear down these walls that support today
This is the time-
to rewrite this book a different fucking way
Corruption comes in different forms
As long as markets perform
We turn a blind eye to the truth
And prepare for the next storm
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5. |
White Washed Pacifism
01:55
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Know this will never be enough
To stall this steady decline
Fascism trickles from the top
Obey without knowing you're in line
Ingrained will to fight-
subjugate through a divide but not unite
Widespread mass control-
goes better when you think you're above every fight
Revision history with peace not progress
A blood soaked past will always be repressed
Reworking yesterday for today's fiction
Abandon truth for a white washed depiction
Political gain is paramount
Anything in the way ends up in this ground
Your false morality-
was given to you to encourage apathy
Another casualty-
dies in front of you but somehow you don't see
Reworded history for your agenda
A bloodied past that has not ever ended
We share this yesterday
but see it in different ways
It doesn't change to fit your needs
The blood of our past remains
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6. |
Distributive Justice
01:58
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Another carrot tied to a stick
Leftover crumbs appease convicts
It won't matter how much you cheat
We encourage the biggest thief
Public disgust lasting so brief
Turn around hide in disbelief
Lies tide the weak, blanket the street, while you're asleep
Turn a blind eye, more people die, but you're alive
You hide behind denied designs but they're just lies
Willed ignorance no longer is deliverance
Justice is free
Take back the means
Don't settle for a piece
Take the whole thing
Holes buried deep so that they can hide
Hidden with purpose from public eyes
Allow the deepest pockets to manipulate
A board of directors decides our fate
The cycle funnels to the top
Pushing your income to drop
Feeding on our own ensures
This system will never stop
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7. |
Last Funeral
01:36
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Enjoy your soul's starvation
A world painted by corporation
Designed to oppress as foundation
The mob mentality is moving this nation
A job is not the path to salvation
In an office working the new plantation
Conditioned apathy to sensation
Nothing is wrong in a world of temptation
Close your eyes let it all pass by
or stay awake for the rest of your life
Kill yourself chasing your illusion
Hide behind your delusion
Necessity dies with their world of greed
In this life take what you need
They pave the fucking world
Until it no longer bleeds
The weather is here
Wish you were beautiful
Reality from a lost dream
Their reality is to deceive
They pave the fucking world
Until it no longer bleeds
The weather is here
Wish you were beautiful
To console your soul
Burn what makes you whole
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8. |
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Control through drugs and entertainment
A population that's sick can't consent
A slow drip every day slowly chips away
Inequality intended to suffocate
Social stress is weakening eradicating reasoning
Leaning on collective norms to find yourself a uniform
Cultural decadence subjugates day by day
A life of wage labor up to the grave
Society's toxins take their toll
Break us down to maintain control
Meaninglessness a product of you
Planning out your vapid shallow debut
Focus on the hollow trappings construed
Keep us all in bondage calm and subdued
Depression from the hands of tyranny
State led captivity
Placed in a box and stripped of our dignity
Depression at the hands of tyranny
state funded currency
Used to sell a false security
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9. |
Numbers
01:55
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Vultures circle overhead
Drawn by the smell of the dead
Feeding on the rotting flesh
Another communal death
Falling behind as payments continue to rise
Write new laws to eviscerate not civilize
Paint over local culture as they sanitize
Carnivores walk the streets and cannibalize
Hiding behind an official disguise
Appropriate and repackage your life
There's nothing but money
Nothing to stop this cleansing
Mob when-
they come to the streets
Defend what's left-
with everything
It's not the money-
but numbers we bring
Everything when you have nothing
Everything when you have nothing left
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10. |
The New California Act
02:06
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Every day on someone else's land
Taken and bough second hand
Hide the graves under disneyland
Red or blue its all the same
Two sides playing the same fucking game
Bondage with a different name
That hideous system
Lives on today
Colonize in different ways
Don't be tricked by a new face
Occupation continues to displace
The dispossessed were left with nothing at all
Forced into subjugated urban sprawl
Asymmetrical recognition
Nonreciprocal contradiction
Acknowledgment from the settler state
End subjection or perpetuate
Liberation
Autonomy
The apparatus fights against sovereignty
Standing on stolen land
Recognized but ignored off hand
Politics to delay demands
For too long falling on deaf ears
Blood thirsty profiteers
Who want everything for themselves
Taking their hoarded wealth to hell
There is no other way
We must give back LA
To the Tongva people today
We must give back LA
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11. |
Not a Right
00:53
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Will you put it on the line
What are you willing to lose
You can't just try it out
You cant just pick and choose
Privilege that gives you the right
Take time away from the fight
Something that is not shared
Something that's not a right
Every day your life's on the line
State violence sustained by swine
Without some skin in the game
Perpetuating the same
Police brutality
You oppose vehemently
Hour of reckoning
Get the fuck up
This is the deadening
Stand the fuck up
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12. |
Privilege
01:30
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An assumed level playing field
all that you know
Mutual give and take perceived
privilege is shown
Take what you want not what you need
A culture of greed
Echoes in your defense of systems that bleed
Ignore a past of genocide
A world colonized
Continue to ignore voices you marginalize
A world that seems to center you
rewarded respect
Entitlement to pick and choose
how others object
A history of forcing people to comply
Assimilation to survive
The backs of those that have died
Came and went so I can have the privilege to exploit another's life
Misrepresented by a guest
Intention's irrelevelent
Exploited for a selfish gain
Power imbalance sustained
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13. |
Skinner Box
01:03
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Demonized and isolated
Locked in a box and sedated
When the only out is self harm
When you draw blood to disarm
Left with no choice but comply
Lost sanity by design
There is so much we can take
Repeated attempts to break
Trapped in a cage with no lights
Stripped of hope and what's left of any fight
Behind bars that you put in place
Behind bars that you can't out pace
Another day just brings more of the same
Another day and it all gets further away
You're nothing
You're no one
Another number left to decay
Left to empty choices we wait
Breathing's a reminder of pain
And all that remains
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14. |
With a Grin
01:27
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Here it is back full circle once again
Another attempt to eviscerate within
I am not the answer you desire
I just showed up to start a fire
There are no shortcuts to be found
No easy path to be inspired
I sell off brand generic life manuals
Another clown dancing up on stage
Can't hold a job
Cowards can't rob
No roof above
I've come undone
Don't come to me
Don't look for me I've gone from this place
Don't recognize cut and past lies
I despise every sunrise
I'm blackened by my mistakes
I'm seated at my own wake
Here it is back full circle once again
Discords and hollow words with a grin
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15. |
Necrophobia
01:45
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I want to live today like it could be my last
Set everything on fire to escape the past
Another moment is passing me by
I'm running out of time
A fleeting impulse dies along with the day
Apathy stands in the way
Inflicting pain
Cut deep to drain
Sometimes it weighs so much I can't stand up
The pressure builds, hurt unfulfilled
When there is nothing real nothing to feel
An emptiness inside
and nowhere left to hide
I spent my life running because I was afraid to die
Every year it's the same
Carving another name
Into a cold headstone
Next to a bleeding grave
A wound I'll always save
This cold dark place
that beats us down
without a sound
It never stops
it just gets worse
Suffering from a collective curse
Set on fire-
Everything
Just buying time-
Until we die
What will you leave
When you leave it all behind
To burn alive
Everything untouched after we die
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