Gang Control

Leftover Crack

I'm being hunted by paleface in blue
and these cracka' spooks are haunting you too
With municipal shovels they're out digging our graves
Under threat of reprisal we abide to enslave

Policia, policia; why can't you see
Your bullets will never pacify me
I don't fight the world; the world fights me
Cause the gang in control is the fucking P.D.

(That's right)

Fuck the police they're gang control
We've gotta take it back
Everyone get up and let's go

Your politics spawn politikill
I'll take a bullet to prove that you kill
You front the facade of a righteous man
But the hole in your heart put a gun in your hand

Protecting the money and out serving the state
Crushing the people with the laws they created
Nothing forgotten and nobody saved
You can not break me, force me to behave

Fuck the police they're gang control
We've gotta tear it down
Everyone get up and let's go
around the globe it's outta hand
from the states to iran
across the ocean, back again
England, Zaire and Japan

Fuck the police they're gang control
We've gotta tear it down
Everyone get up and let's go
Individuals who hate man
With king's license to clean the land
Fill the army with one way laws
Around the world to suit their cause


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    I think this song is about how cops suck. and they do. and how about this govenment in general sucks, and how everything around the world is out of control thanks to us:

    around the globe it's outta hand from the states to iran across the ocean, back again England, Zaire and Japan

    this is also about how we're controlled ourselves by the government and their minions, otherwise known as cops, civilians recruited by the U.S., 'palefaces in blue' 'hunting' their fellow citizens:

    Protecting the money and out serving the state Crushing the people with the laws they created

    making sure we 'abide to enslave':

    With municipal shovels they're out digging our graves Under threat of reprisal we abide to enslave

    but it's also about how we can resist:

    Policia, policia; why can't you see Your bullets will never pacify me I don't fight the world; the world fights me

    very good song, kickass band.

    x_miss_red_head_xon December 02, 2004   Link

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