Easily temperamental
Dangerously equipped
Impossibly avoidable
By proving their contempt
Bastardizing the justice
And living above the law
Black and blue don't get along
Blue just want em dead and gone
Empty your clips on the victim
And then you look the other way
Your nation will crumble
And you'll just look the other way
Got a hood rat and the alley cat heard
The city got a kid hesitating to leave work
At the right time in the wrong place got served
An extendo not a miranda head first
Get down, already knocked out face on the ground
We're at war with the ones who protect and serve
Empty your clips on the victim
And then you look the other way
Minorities parish
And even tho he got his hands up
Caged like animals
Wound up and released with their badges
Brutalize our streets, savages
How many have to die
To put an end to crooked swine
And you just look the other way
Empty your clips on the victim
And then you look the other way
Your nation will crumble
And you just look the other way
They will not fear the system anymore
They will not cower like they did before
This cannot be ignored
The machine will not hold us down


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Blue Wall Lyrics as written by Derek Carter Adrian Rebollo

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    The song is about police brutality

    pjoseph12on November 14, 2016   Link

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