1. |
Legal Genocide
01:33
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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
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2. |
March of The Mindless
01:05
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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
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3. |
Buckle Down
00:41
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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
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4. |
Bully To Bluey
01:23
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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
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5. |
Lead Down The Wrong Path
01:39
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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
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6. |
Feelin Fine
00:29
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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
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7. |
Last Clean Shirt
00:30
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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
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8. |
Life After The Boom
01:41
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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?
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9. |
The Great Exodus
01:47
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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
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10. |
Universal Balance
00:55
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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
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11. |
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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
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12. |
Celexa Serenade
01:06
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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
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13. |
Suckers, Losers
00:50
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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
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14. |
Fuck Your lil Flag
01:24
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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
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15. |
Shameless Imbalance
01:10
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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
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16. |
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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
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17. |
A Long Line
00:31
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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
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18. |
The Union of The Weak
01:13
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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
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19. |
Serial Shithead
01:32
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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
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20. |
Numb To The Pain
01:25
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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
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21. |
Build The Foundation
00:42
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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
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22. |
Some Press Is Bad Press
01:27
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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
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23. |
Down Below
02:11
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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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Mike De Lorenzo & Darren Nanos
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