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We're sick and tired
Of repeating ourselves
We're like a broken record
That someone keeps trying to shelf
But I don't care if it's been said before
I'll lose my fucking voice to say it a thousand times more
Fuck the red hats, fuck the kkk
Fuck anyone who thinks that speaking out ain't the way
Fuck the pandering media
Fuck the corrupt cops
Fuck everyone who stands against peace and justice
I'll say it until the bullshit stops
Be a critical thinker
Be a positive force
Be a part of the weight that shifts the rails back onto course
We'll scream for change until we make these cowards go deaf!
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Somehow the rules they don't apply to you
It's only wrong if it's not what you'd do
You embarrass me
It's fucking sad to see
The world revolves around white conveniency
YOU
Call the cops when you don't get your way
Dial 911 when you've got some shit to say
Always got to jump ten steps ahead
You make that call someone ends up dead!
The world isn't yours to patrol
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So what do you think? You're some specialist now?
You earned your right to tell me what's what?
Something your "friend's friend heard" doesn't hold much weight
Here's some news: you ought to keep your mouth shut!
I don't need your phony lines, you're SPREADING BULLSHIT
You can't validate some asshole's crimes no I WON'T HEAR IT
Went looking for some logic but they emptied the shelf
Your commentary's meaningless so keep it to yourself
It's so sad to watch you flounder when you're trying to explain away
But when ya do the math you'll see you got squat to say
No one wants to listen to you talk
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No Neutrals
00:42
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Dont tell me not to be angry
We've seen all this before
I've read our history long enough
To know what I deplore
400 years of torture
Centuries of pain
This incarceration culture
All at the root of my disdain
Check your fuckin status in life if you ain't got some shit to say
Get your vision tested, man
If all you see is grey
It's time to choose your side!
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Wear Me Away
00:46
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Bore me down, wear me away
Strip me layer by layer each and everyday
Can hardly breathe, all I smell is grind
Stone dragging at my feet, got me left behind
Pay your offerings at the altar of the state
Some grain of sand's going to write your fate
No talking back, it's the hard fought way we live
Sacrifice life and limb until you've nothing left to give
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Reactionary Politics
00:50
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There's color in office for eight years
It serves the left but stokes the far right's fears
They never accepted, they loathed the change
They want "greatness" back, when equality was out of range
Now there's coded language and subtle signs
But their secret's out, we see through the blinds
Reactionary Politics from the wrong side
It's draws the evil out the monsters tried to hide
Your TIME IS UP
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Find Your Fuel
01:20
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A woman knocked off her feet
Her legs buckle up, head cracks on the street
An elderly man crumpled like a tin can
Excessive force in the name of the elite
What more do you need to see?
What'll get your off your ass and into the scene?
Democracy slows, complacency grows
Walking on a razor's edge cause our freedoms are in jeopardy
We've had enough
We're sitting firmly at our wit's end
Won't take no more abuse
We get heated and blow just like a short fuse
So find your strength and rage
Join the fight and break free from the cage
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If you've got a choice then raise your voice
Don't just sit there in silence
Tell the ones you love that love you most that you stand against this bullshit violence
Now's the time for difficult chats
Tell em other's people's pain is yours
Spread the message that hate is wrong
Not to focus on the fucking stores
Sometimes a simple push
Is all it takes to wake sleeping eyes
A little taste of mighty truth
To wash away the years of lies
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Detained and contained
From lines we can't see
"Give Us Your Poor"
Being scratched off her feet
Fenced off on floors, locked behind doors
Blotted from view in a shameful war
Ripped from their arms
Family ties cleaved
Disgraceful the agents
Have blood on their sleeves
Kids left alone, pulled out their homes
Scalded ignored unanswered moans
And still a nation marches on
No signs of sympathy are shown
When WHEN When will this nightmare end?
This same shit already happened to our kin
When WHEN When will this nightmare end?
They shut it down, you wanna start it all again!
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Lump of Shit
01:22
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We can't define what we haven't lived
Experience, the only path to perspective
You didn't walk in someone's shoes, you never even tried em on
How can we make the right call if we've never been wrong
YOU LACK DEFINITION
Your sandpaper sentences causing friction
Every step of every play
Another landmine in the way
Ignorance, the only aim of your mission
The hammer and the nail
Can build a home or crucify without fail
It's how we use these tools
That determine the worth in their set of rules
We can't explain away
Or take things out of play
Without simple regard
To the world at large
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An embarrassing caste I'm in
One that I never quite identified with and
The cause of shame and humiliation
We never choose what bin we get dropped in so don't praise your luck
Just cause you're cruising by while so many are stuck
And it was never something you earned
You just woke up well ahead while so many get burned
If you the lottery put you ahead
It doesn't give you say on who lives and who's dead
A sorry state when so much of our fate depends on our place in the race
You're no better, you're worse!
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Born Angry
01:39
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They're always letting things just roll off their backs
Few things leave em feeling "personally attacked"
It's not the same for me...
It's not who I want to be
I'll let things get to me cause
I was BORN ANGRY
Everybody's gotta choose their fights
But it seems we don't all get the same set of rights
You won't speak up, I see...
You won't agree with me
I guess it was because I was BORN ANGRY
You mock me for my rage
Anything bothers me that's on the front page
Thought I'd grow out of it
But this person's the only fit
I'll never settle cause I was BORN ANGRY
If you got some feelings for a cause
If you're sick of someone putting dents in all our laws
Stand against the normalcy
Don't let em mock your beliefs
Never be ashamed if you were BORN ANGRY
I guess I was just simmering from the start
A thirst for justice bred into my heart
Debate any unfairness that I see
I can't help who I was born to be
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