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Shameless Imbalance

by War Babies

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1.
How many more lives Will you steal from these mothers and fathers? You could approach with caution You decide you won't bother LEGAL GENOCIDE Perpetrators sporting blue Murderers let off the hook Only justice for the few No patience, no poise The hammer's cocked when they arrive A split second of action Another black man dies LEGAL GENOCIDE In the badge is where it's bred They're still on the streets, patrolling around With another victim dead Elijah, George, or Breonna In their eyes they're all the same Trained to disregard their lives But we won't forget their names
2.
Desperately digging Boring into your brain Trying to justify something All while throwing dirt Atop some deeper pain In a lot that isn't zoned for dumping MARCH of the mindless Reality stings when you're fucking spinless Onward Keep straight Cloud judgement of your fate Drop down That hole No chance of reckoning for your soul
3.
Buckle Down 00:41
We're burning it away Theres a poison goin' 'round Living through an age of unrest Find our future six feet down In these times, the balance is all skewed Evil endlessly energized Settle in cause we might be all screwed Repulsive rulings realized BUCKLE DOWN Cause there ain't no turning back We're trampling on it all BUCKLE DOWN The levy's bout to crack Every ethic takes a fall
4.
Why do they serve? What lead them down their pathetic path? A life so absurd It don't add up when you do the math They're tired of feeling rejection They push their pain onto everyone else A life so pointless, so aimless, so dull They need to drag us all with 'em into their hell The kind who flex just to cover their flinch Anger management ain't in the cards Just as unstable as the people they point at They gamble our lives in the railroad yards And just to prove a point they'd pin an offense When prompted for purpose they don't make sense When they were picked on They picked a dream career Now they're perverted by power Posing as a hardened hero but still a child in fear
5.
Sometimes there's a path laid in one's way And all the roads that came before were murky, mired, and grey This has the trailblazer's torch burning bright in the distance You see no better way out, so why proceed in resistance? When your direction is lost Free advice may arrive with an unwanted cost Got no sense of where you are with what you've been shown Unaware the true path was there, just a bit overgrown You're mislead With all you've been fed You're mislead With with all that you said You're mislead With how you've been bred You're mislead with every thought you hold in your head So find some other way out The path laid in front of you ain't gotta be the one you choose
6.
Feelin Fine 00:29
Another hour More stressed out Another day More stressed out Every minute that ticks on by Losing grip on my mind Slipping through a darkened hole But on the outside: "feeling fine" Another day More stressed out Another year More fucking stressed out
7.
Wearing your last clean shirt That shine ain't nothing but dirt Death is like justice is supposed to be Outside history, inside voice Speaking tongues, your word of choice Outside history, inside voice Spewing shit Give no choice
8.
These are desperate days Monetized motivations over peaceful plays The stakes are higher, yet the chances low Our feet are at the fire as we watch it grow WE DUG OURSELVES THIS DITCH And clawing our way out is gonna be quite a bitch Mountains of information no one cares to read We only digest from our chosen feed For years they rolled over and let the suits roll in Watch them turn the cost of gold to the value of tin Printing paper profits they're programmed to produce Pumping poison in the air they've been hired to reduce Speeding quickly by while the meager struggle just to strive If you're not furious are you even alive?
9.
Just an hour from the action A safe distance from the fear Their city changed - it's "darker" now So they bricked themselves in out here Their little whitewashed canvas Is showing shades of black and brown All it took to ship them off Was progress coming around The great exodus Etched these blueprints in young minds A new set of neighbors Why they left it all behind The last living blood line Has kids pouring into their mold Instill their fear of diversity Young hearts will keep on growing cold The great exodus Started this snowball spinning on But we've got to start the melt We can't wait until they're gone And now their flags are waving Their pushing back against what's right It's been two generations Since they took that flight
10.
Cheat and torture, harass and prod Expect protection on your actions from some phony god Drop your weight then the balance breaks Karmic direction never swerves to preserve one fate You better learn to live and let live Cause you get what you give Don't persist in your regressive being Try to focus on what you've been seeing Watch out for the pendulum's swing You'll leave with what you bring
11.
Not tryin to hear it, the nonsense noise Flippantly flooding from your face So eager to be edgy, combative comments dropped at rapid pace Shouting stupid shit from your soapbox, just to hear your own damn voice But if someone shut your mouth we'd all rejoice Cause we're tired of it, who wants to hear you always tell your side Somehow you made some friends and took them along for the ride But even they're tired of your predictable ways, you wear out everyone you meet One day the stupid shit you say will get you knocked right off your feet
12.
One pill a day puts the monster to sleep Caging the rage, depression supression It's clinical It's physical It's chemical False peace
13.
Your actions are nothing but hateful and arrogant words Valorless, cowardice - a legacy disgraced From shameful to blameful, made powerless All selfless acts have been defaced Make a mockery and minimize and popularize a thousand lies While they fought and died so you can have the right To kick your dirt right into their eyes We all die alone - you will die alone
14.
Your racist lineage robbed people from their lands and dragged them across the seas Kept them caged for hundreds of years, then were made to set them free It was never their choice to make They held a grudge and against the people who'd won Then built an army to brutalize and harass Any newly freed human under the sun These people never changed They kept waving their pathetic flag Then they had generations of shitty kids who kept alive the nightmare they had The tale of the South Is the story of the hypocrite You would call any other race lazy yet You made money off not doing shit
15.
I don't know what it'll take To get the world on a level plane To shatter the glass and break the walls down To rewrite the rules of the game There ain't no full spectrum When white absorbs it all A single towering tier at the top Overlord in the urban sprawl SHAMELESS IMBALANCE All going according to their plans Let the business lay while the working still got to stand SHAMELESS IMBALANCE Is all we're left with in these times Where the sum doesnt equal the product of their crimes
16.
The agenda doesn't match the actions Some that would strike down choice could never chance to choose The how or why has passed us by No matter what the outcome in the end we lose Homeless, impoverished, addicted or in a state Whether here or not either way they'll rot It's not about the life, it's a game of fate A pose so pious With a laundry list of sins A House of liars With a closet of skeletons This body policing No warrant or just cause Invert the genders You couldn't think to draft such laws Keep your policies Out of our parts
17.
A Long Line 00:31
Drowning in your expectations Smothered by your guilt Pinned at the foot by my own frustration My sense of self has begun to wilt I can clearly see That I can't clearly be What you want of me You're too ashamed, clearly Drowning in your expectations
18.
Couldn't be more blatant Stamped the approval right at the heart Stepped on, pushed out, smack right to the fucking face Obvious from the start Protect a way life Serve the selected few Courteous to killers Bred of violent brood Can't even be professional in the eyes of a camera Behind closed doors I can't imagine all the fucked up shit you do Representatives of a fraction Call the shots still all the same Found amongst the deepening shadows Of theirs peers heads held low in shame THE UNION OF THE WEAK Wreak havoc as they build their bonds They're a fucking disease We'll be better off when they're gone
19.
Two parts of a problem, but only one party's innocent If one side ends up doing time the other wakes wondering where time went Painted as perfect by the battered and bruised When will the victim finally see they've been abused? This spinning chessboard, the real estate is clearing out Every ask and every tell is a scheme meant to fill their prey with doubt "No, not us, you don't understand, you don't know him like I do!" "We've built a life together, I couldn't leave after what we've been through!" Every step closer to the light grows the shadow more and more... Every question of his authority might get them knocked onto the floor! It's all snare set early enough that they can prop up presentable bait As time ticks on his temperament well passed the expiration date It's all a sickening cycle run the pattern then flee the scene Mistreat 'em, beat 'em then leave 'em to find some other soul to demean
20.
Life will knock us down over and over It will come at us to spar Some decisons leave a callous And others cover us in scars When we're young they tell us it's the fight that makes the man But with every bout you win you'll end up back where you began Numb to the pain No more patience for anything I've been beaten and broken but still I hold my ground, as the years press my shoulders tryin to take me down Numb to the pain These expectations been lowered for all you'll bring Been backed into a corner I've been battered and bruised, Still I stagger to my feet no matter what the abuse Well the bell rings and I'm still on my feet I'll hold my head up high If I let the pain leave me broken down on the street I'll deserve whatever way I die
21.
No short term solution For a problem years in the fold But you can't polish some blacktop And expect it brighten to gold Unless you run for a seat You'll be stranded out in the cold No way of Starting over Building upwards Unless we have a strong foundation So lay your motherfucking stones
22.
To be so deranged Desperate for attention from us all Inflate your ego Anything to feel less small The need to see your name anywhere in print so desperately You'd stack the charges against yourself from commiting atrocities Press is press is press is press You gotta raise the bar, leave it teetering on the edge One sour word against your name, your team talks you off the ledge Acting out like a spoiled child, selling lies so desperately Scrambling to spit out anything that'll cause the slightest bit of controversy Press is press Trample on everything you spin A pair of cuffs is all you deserved to win
23.
Down Below 02:11
We come from a place Where the norm is the unexpected Where being a cast out amongst your blood Means that here you'll be accepted Where a common thread, amongst our mutoid friends, Is being the one less likely to win Where being "anti" is blending in Where you find the true meaning of "kin" Where we learned all of the concepts That folks are catching onto these days Where all the things we love and all the ones we hate We proudly bare out on display DOWN BELOW in the darkened halls of the world DOWN BELOW you'll find a pack of strays We educate one another, got each other's backs DOWN BELOW we're living our own way I might find it tough at times To find the will just to come around But I know it's there that I'll find the friends That'll pick me up off the ground We are the freaks, we are the rejects That got lost along the way We know they'll never get it Why we make the time to play Amongst the dust and the rubble We gather in our comfort zone DOWN BELOW we got a place fall back on With our friends we'll never be alone

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released July 6, 2022

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