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[00:02.84]Shut down in Austin, raided back in Cleveland
[00:05.90]A gun up in our faces and they never gave a reason
[00:09.06]The writings on the wall, the politics are fake
[00:12.07]Its clear to me we're livin in a police state
[00:15.61]Seven beers deep and we haven't left the Heights
[00:18.58]The whole citys gone corrupt, there ain't enough to make it right
[00:21.75]Wish the music would be more like the boats on the shore
[00:24.91]More rust, less metal, put the pedal to the floor
[00:28.13]Let them crops grow deep in the pothole streets
[00:31.31]In the Rock N Roll city only stops on the beat
[00:34.57]Got me paranoid, stressed, why don't you put me to the test under a streetlight
[01:06.89]Drunk down in Cinci, burned out in Compton
[01:10.10]God Bless America and Fuck Dennis Rodman
[01:13.09]The working mans imprisoned while celebrities escape
[01:16.03]Oh my God its so much bigger than a police state
[01:19.63]Debbie had a job now all she does is crack
[01:22.58]She collect a welfare check and yet she drives a Cadillac
[01:25.65]Just perpetuating more of that "choosing to afford"
[01:28.94]Whether rich or whether poor, sometimes its what you settle for
[01:32.00]But its gotta come cheap when theres just enough to eat
[01:35.39]And the wheels of the Caddy knock holes in the street
[01:38.52]When your making ends meet by the skin of your teeth its a hard life
[02:11.18]So where'd the cash go? I think we all know
[02:14.05]Straight into technology tracking you on your cell phone
[02:17.52]They'll break you down but you'll give them the tools
[02:20.11]Now theyre taxing your pay checks and taking music out of public schools
[02:23.52]You better keep your shoes tied tight on the east side
[02:25.29]Smoke a blunt, take a walk, end up on a police ride
[02:26.87]Now it might just seem like a regular day
[02:28.46]You got your hustle on but you don't get paid
[02:30.04]At least not enough so you better make a change
[02:31.62]End up getting busted with your face on the front page
[02:33.46]Now the money in your bed or in your safe
[02:34.60]Might as well not even been there in the first place
[02:36.49]Bombed out in B-More, broke down in Youngstown
[02:39.76]If you ain't been listenin', let me give you the run down
[02:42.69]The prisons are for profit, its society's mistake
[02:45.64]How macabre, we been living in a police state
[02:49.08]Another privileged youth who somehow thought he could hang
[02:52.02]He got covered in tattoos and goes and joins a biker gang
[02:55.25]When refusing to conform has become part of the norm
[02:58.56]Better come original and then you might weather the storm
[03:01.71]But the talk comes cheap when he caught some beef
[03:04.95]And I bet that silver spoon ain't teach the rules of the street
[03:08.05]Hope ya got your piece when the shit gets deep think your smart right?