"Get down, turn around,
Skinny Boy is on his knees;
and I can't figure out
what I need to do to please you.
There's a man in Brooklyn
who police are messing up 'til dawn,
while The Man in California gives them semi-automatic guns"
Abner Louima was a Haitian immigrant that was sodomized with a toilet plunger by an NYPD officer after already being beaten up in the patrol car.
"And we can't even function
when we're not in a band. "
This is commentary on how humans are innately cruel and will do horrible things if left unattended.
"I'm not eating well (as if I didn't have the time),
and I don't do pharmaceuticals, so I got no excuse for the crime,
But they're eating them in Brooklyn
and the hot California sun
when police in California get their semi-automatic guns.
And how many rounds will they get off
before you get up your hands? "
In an other police case earlier that year a man was shot 19 times to death before he could show he had no weapon. The song is commenting on the police injustices that are being done in the United States.
"Oh, we can't even function
When we're not in a band."
Exactly... oh and Johnynie Cochran was the lawyer in this case, since it involved race, and that brother knows whats up, he got O.J. and M.J. off and he drives a Rolls-Royce.
"Get down, turn around, Skinny Boy is on his knees; and I can't figure out what I need to do to please you. There's a man in Brooklyn who police are messing up 'til dawn, while The Man in California gives them semi-automatic guns"
Abner Louima was a Haitian immigrant that was sodomized with a toilet plunger by an NYPD officer after already being beaten up in the patrol car.
"And we can't even function when we're not in a band. "
This is commentary on how humans are innately cruel and will do horrible things if left unattended.
"I'm not eating well (as if I didn't have the time), and I don't do pharmaceuticals, so I got no excuse for the crime, But they're eating them in Brooklyn and the hot California sun when police in California get their semi-automatic guns. And how many rounds will they get off before you get up your hands? "
In an other police case earlier that year a man was shot 19 times to death before he could show he had no weapon. The song is commenting on the police injustices that are being done in the United States.
"Oh, we can't even function When we're not in a band."
Exactly... oh and Johnynie Cochran was the lawyer in this case, since it involved race, and that brother knows whats up, he got O.J. and M.J. off and he drives a Rolls-Royce.