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Crime pays!
Crime pays!

Waste of mother f**kin’ space
In prison eating steak
Anything and everything about it
Is a migraine
Someone get me straight
Make these people change
Tell me what to do
If I can help it
I would gladly pay my way

My country’s killers live in luxury
I’ll just wait until they come for me

Crime pays!
Crime pays!

Change and rehabilitate
Makes it feel okay
Anything and everything
About it is a migraine
Killers have it great
It makes me feel unsafe
Tell me what to do
If I could help it
I would gladly pay my way

My country’s killers live in luxury
I’ll just wait until they come for me

Crime pays!
Crime pays!

Crime pays!
Crime pays!
Crime pays!
Crime pays!

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panasonicyouth99 On Dec 16, 2004

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2004-12-16 17:12:54

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by Music_Love

21y ago

This is an amazing song by an amazing band! It should be so much more famous... This one adresses how some people do good things all their lives and rarely get as acknowledged as killers.Think the episode of SNL where Edie Murphy was there and they did that skit of Buckwheat being shot.

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