1. |
Tear Gas Jenny
06:03
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[Intro]
“Hey guys we’re in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle right now
I don’t know if you can hear me
But we have have police now advancing on protesters”
“Fuck! Fuck!”
“Oh my gosh I’m running, I’m running!”
“How long do you think Seattle and those few blocks look like this?”
“I don’t know, we could have the Summer of Love”
[Hook]
Tear gas
T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas (T-T)
It’s Jenny with the tear gas
T-tear gas, tear gas, tear gas
(We could have the Summer of Love)
(The use of force must be rare
It must be necessary and it must be proportional)
It’s Jenny with the tear gas
T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas
(We could have the Summer of Love)
[Post-Hook]
“I am Captain Allen of the Seattle Police Department
I am now issuing a public safety order to disperse”
[Verse 1]
(Heh)
In Seattle where we redline zones
So there’s more Black Lives Matter signs than Black folks
Where the affluent liberals gon’ tell you “Vote”
But the Democratic mayor keep her foot on your throat (Heh)
It’s Jenny Durkan that’s leadin’ this fuckin’ circus
Sold out the city, so that Bezos could purchase it
Accelerated gentrification
Forced you out your home so the rich transplants could take it
In a city where it always rains but you don’t need an umbrella
‘Less the cops got the bear mace pointed and ready to spray (Spray)
Flashbang grenades
Blast balls, the cops aim ‘em right at your face
This is every day (Every day!)
Pigs on parade
Circle the block, sirens, hoppin’ out for the violence
Protect and serve? Protect who?
Call it justice when they crush the poor under they boots
Meanwhile the cop that killed Charleena Lyles still ridin’ ‘round the city
Two day suspension for equipment violation
Jason Anderson left his taser at home
Now Charleena’s four kids ain’t got no fuckin’ Mom
People fed up and the precinct bricked up
Protests picked up so the police cliqued up
They block the exits, give the dispersal orders
When you trapped, kettled, can’t leave
They hit you with the…
[Hook]
Tear gas
T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas (T-T)
It’s Jenny with the tear gas
T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas
(We could have the Summer of Love)
[Verse 2]
Jenny Durkan is workin’ the waterworks for the cameras
Sayin’ all the right words, but is worthless with actions
Her, Ted Wheeler, Lori Lightfoot too
You know Democrats: all talk, no do
(“We have a system built on systemic racism”)
No kidding, Jenny, that system is YOU
All you know is the tear gas, baton and the boot
Protect the rich corporate interests that donated to you (Hah)
Vetoed the tax but the left the cops unfettered
Jenny, you make the sex offender mayor look better (Hahaha)
Shout out to Ed Murray
Jenny got the pedophile endorsement and now she run the city (Yeah)
A former US Attorney
Let the banks off the hook but gave activists five months solitary
Our first lesbian mayor (So progressive!)
Corporate careerist, using force to suppress protests
The type celebrate the Stonewall Riots
Then gas the gay district on the first day of Pride (Heh)
Jackboots on the rainbow crosswalks
Cap Hill covered in this chemical mixed fog
Street mural that say “Black Lives Matter”
Cops beat the protesters right on top of the letters
Every night for a week, all the scared little piggies
Teargassed the densest residential blocks in the city
It’s just collateral damage for them neighborhood cops
But Jenny only wanna talk about violence at CHOP
Well, let’s talk, those kids got shot
‘Cause of this dangerous situation created by your cops
Spent a week provoking violence then abandoned East Precinct
Made a whole neighborhood into a power vacuum
Chief says it wasn’t her and you say it wasn’t you
So who gave the order to make the precinct move?
‘Cause if it really wasn’t her and it really wasn’t you
Then who’s really in control here Jenny?
Who?
[Hook]
Tear gas
T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas (T-T)
It’s Jenny with the tear gas
T-tear gas, tear gas, tear gas
(We could have the Summer of Love)
[Verse 3]
You murdered them kids, Jenny, that blood’s on you
You know CHOP was a setup by your boys in the blue
Terror and paranoia from the informants and spooks
Sowed seeds for the violence, don’t act surprised when they bloom
Law enforcement, your first resort and the second
Status quo, at all costs to be protected (Yeah)
Civil rights protests is met with weapons
While you on CNN talkin’ ‘bout the next election
You can fool Chris Cuomo but you can’t fool the people
Grandstand ‘bout Trump for the East Coast liberals (Heh)
Say you wanna keep the Feds out your streets
But his goons act the same as Seattle police (Hmmm)
Authoritarian law and order, there’s more of it…
And now they got a taste for it…
‘Cause, funny thing about the tear gas
Once it’s out the canister, you can’t just put it back
Fascism dispersed, rogue police
Mike Solan’s pro’ly on the phone with Feds as we speak
And DHS been waitin’ to bring the heat
So Mike got his boys instigatin’ riots in the street
Now they can’t seem to answer 911
But got a small army guardin’ the police union
They wanna scare, panic, make mo’ danger
Puttin’ fake terror threats on the police scanner (“Group of the Proud Boys…”)
Public safety’s a protection racket
While Lorenzo died they played riot gear dress-up
Face it Jenny, they just do what they like (heh)
You banned tear gas, they use it the next night
You’ve unleashed this beast you can’t control and you know it
Every time you get on TV and lie, you show it
When the council tries to pass a bill, you gots to veto it
‘Cause your puppetmasters make you dance a dance that they’ve chosen
Stuck between a rock and a hard place, it’s certain
This mayor can’t handle the moral leadership burden
The city hurtin’, Trump got the Feds lurkin’
But Seattle’s biggest problem? (Hmph)
Jenny Durkan
[Hook]
Tear gas
T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas (T-T)
It’s Jenny with the tear gas
T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas
(We could have the Summer of Love)
(The right to challenge government when it’s wrong
Is our most fundamental constitutional right)
It’s Jenny with the tear gas
T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas
(We could have the Summer of Love)
[Post-Hook]
“Disperse now!”
[Outro]
Hi, Jenny
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2. |
Kops and Klan
03:27
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[Intro]
That “Thin Blue Line” we hear about
Is between the good and the bad, if you will, of our society
In our communities
They are the thin blue line that protect us
From those who would otherwise, um, create havoc
[Hook]
Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
Hand in hand, hand in hand
Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
Hand in hand, hand in hand
[Verse 1]
Police set trippin’ on the block
Circle ‘round they lookin’ to get the drop
Nightriders doin’ traffic stops
Hop out boys is strapped, ready to pop
Shots fired when Glocks come out, they waste him
Another body caught by the policeman
Other officers lie up in the statements
Gavel slam, he a free man, damn
[Hook]
Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
[Verse 2]
Extrajudicial, murder, murder continues
Police guild extort public officials
Since ’83 police budget is tripled
Riot gear at the candlelight vigil
They bang on you, then throw up the set
Fly the Thin Blue Line flag after each death
Protests turn into mass arrests
Dissent crackdown cause chilling effect (Yup)
Who do they protect in this stolen land?
Who do they serve? Which Americans?
You ever wonder why there’s no more Klan?
‘Cause the Kops do the job better than they can
Said the Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
Word to ’63 Birmingham
That’s word to ’14 Ferguson
Armed thugs, vanguards of the caste system
Protect and serve suburban whims
Preserve enclaves for the white children
White hoods out but the badge is in
Thin Blue Line boys back again
[Interlude]
Crime went up!
And it’s only the decent people that crime is being committed on
By hoodlums
And it’s only one thin line between crime and society
And that’s us policemen!
[Bridge]
Some of those that work forces (Thin Blue Line)
Are the same that burn crosses (Protect us)
Some of those that work forces (Thin Blue Line)
Are the same that burn crosses
[Hook]
Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
[Verse 3]
They runnin’ rampant like ’75 San Fran
Manufacturing danger is how they get bands
Thugs with badges go unchecked
Try to legislate change, they respond with threats
So, really then, who the boss of who?
When your mayor scared of ‘em, shit, why ain’t you? (Heh)
Goonsquad out on the prowl again
Enforce the social order any way they can
Bodycam snuff films on public display
Terrorize the people keep the people in place (Heh)
A man was lynched yesterday
Boys in Blue had to regulate
Said the Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
Departments linked with militiamen
Infiltrated by supremacists
Give ‘em badges and guns and the jury acquits
Yeah, now get your hands in the air
Errybody get down, put your hands in the air
Keep ‘em up, keep ‘em, h-hands in the air
[Interlude]
“Put your hands up!”
“Get your hands in the air!”
*gunshots*
“Get down”
“Shots fired”
“Do not fucking move! Do not fucking move!”
[Hook]
Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
(“Do not move! Do not fucking move!”)
Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
(“Get down!”)
Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
(“I got him, I got him!”)
Kops and the Klan go hand in hand
[Outro]
Uhhh… but that’s what we’re talkin’
Err… that’s what we’re talkin’ about
When we say the “Thin Blue Line”
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3. |
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[Intro]
“Hold, hold, hold, hold, hold”
“Hold tight!”
“De-arrest! De-arrest! De-arrest!”
[Refrain - Michele Pace]
Una mattina mi son svegliato
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao
Una mattina mi son svegliato
E ho trovato l'invasor
[Verse 1 - Sly deSilva]
Who watches the watchmen up on the block?
It’s not these politicians hidin’ behind the cops
It’s not the fake activists, snitches and opps
When the snatch vans pull up, who gets got?
Riot gear goons totin’ chemical weapons
Target makeshift shields and some pink umbrellas (Heh)
Bella Ciao in the air, like the capsicum spray
It gets spicy ‘erry night
“We could have the Summer of Love”
[Verse 2 - Bigg Villainus]
Mayor Durkan pays chimos sent on informant missions
Phoenix Jones fight against the people’s resistance
Fight back, jackin’ white supremacists for riches
Welcome to Sea Town, the Anarchist Jurisdiction
Listen, tear gas flooded streets, persisted
I'm breakin’ down the barricades and de-arrested
Missin’ with their charges but the state persisted
Beat cases, precedents, escapades acquitted
No bidin’ to those slave tradin’ bastards
Admitting ACAB speeding so much faster
“Take it to the streets and fuck the police
No justice, no peace (Fuck 12)”
Stay fighting, May Day Five, I’m the one that mastered
What’s written, prosecutors and hogs put out to pasture
Who watches the watchmen up on the block? (Uh)
It’s black bloc on your block, fuck the cops (Yeah, look)
[Verse 3 - Jahdi]
Been on the ground steady for Black Lives Matter (Yeah)
Inhaled so much tear gas I’ll probably catch cancer (Look)
By the time I turn 40
Riot cops in Portland, man
Will beat you in the street and report that you assaulted ‘em (Mm)
That’s what they tried to say when I got kidnapped
By the Feds in 2020, didn’t stop, I went back
Mayor is a clown (Facts), the government’s a circus (Facts)
Can’t reform the system, let’s feed it to a furnace (Abolish)
I’m rollin’ with the anarchists and radicals
Ironic, we fightin’ pigs who treatin’ us like animals (Bitch-ass niggas)
You the type to speak to Feds
I’m the type to de-arrest
Me and you are not the same (Nah)
Fuck you, white supremacists (Fuck you)
Number one demand was ‘defund the police’
But all around the country they budgets increased (Say what?)
Don’t be surprised if the riots don’t stop, nigga
It’s black bloc on your block, fuck the cops
[Bridge - Bigg Villainus]
I don’t see shit, I don’t know shit
I don’t see shit, I don’t know shit
Fight these swine but we won’t flip
Rather turn and die than run my lip
You don’t see shit, you don’t say shit
You don’t see shit, you don’t say shit
In Northwest dystopian depiction
“Anarchist Jurisdiction”
[Verse 4 - Sly deSilva]
All these feckless liberals go on and pearl-clutch
Manny Ellis dead and they worried about a Starbucks
Cops murder, but the protests is
When politicians fearmonger ‘bout the lawlessness (Heh)
Well that’s rich, comin’ from the rich
Where they get they money from?
(I don’t see shit, I don’t know shit)
When they rob the whole world it’s called business
When they rob the whole world it’s called business
In this Anarchist Jurisdiction the cops
Circle ‘round the block, beatin’ down anybody they want (Uh)
Law and order keep you calm and compliant
When you fight back they call it a riot (Heh)
What’s a peaceful protest but a parade to quiet ya?
And what’s a state but a monopoly on violence?
Built on slavery, genocide and bullets
God Bless America you know we all love it
[Bridge]
Take it the streets and fuck the police
No justice, no peace (Fuck 12!)
Take it the streets and fuck the police
No justice, no peace (Fuck 12!)
Take it the streets and fuck the police
No justice, no peace (Fuck 12!)
Take it the streets and fuck the police
No justice, no peace
[Refrain - Michele Pace]
È questo il fiore del partigiano,
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao
È questo il fiore del partigiano
Morto per la libertà
It’s black bloc on your block, fuck the cops
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4. |
Riots and Looting
03:22
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[Intro]
“The confrontation at the West Precinct
Was part of the Sunday violence
That left a trail of destruction from downtown to Capitol Hill”
“KOMO’s Tammy Mutasa is live in Seattle with more on the video
It really paints a pretty ugly picture”
[Verse 1]
This that Sinclair Station Flow
That’s word to KOMO news
Turn on your TV, watch the propaganda spew
Camera crews shoot riot porn for the masses
Suburbanites scared, they ‘bout to go and turn fascist
KIRO7 got the chopper, eyes on watchin’
Somehow they never catch it when them cops is steady mobbin’
Dozen photographers gathered around a trash fire
Next day, front page, “Seattle on Fire”
If it bleeds it leads, ain’t no surprise
They say they on your side, but they actions don’t lie
Carmen Best teargassed crowds then got hired by KING5
“Get going, they’re throwing gas!”
[Verse 2]
Wasn’t no riot here
Then the cops came with that riot gear
Now errybody runnin’, duckin’ for cover
While all around the sound of munitions is bustin’
And that 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile seep in your lungs
Suffocatin’, now you panicked and stunned
Try to escape out the fog but trip and fall while you run (Hah)
Can’t see, can’t breathe
Here come the Brady List boys with the clubs
“We could have the Summer of Love”
Drag you cross the pavement ‘fore they throw you in trucks
Wrists burn from the pepper spray that they put on the cuffs
Face burn from the chemicals while they laugh at you, smug (Heh)
Your tax dollars at work
Intimidation tactics of the corrupt
Collective shrugs while skulls cracked by Solan’s thugs
Like, fuck it, let them OPA complaints pile up
Liberal Seattle where dissent get you touched (Hahaha)
[Interlude]
“It looks to me like the officer saw something criminal
Even though you can’t see it from the camera
And wanted to take the guy into custody
I think you’re tryna-
I don’t think we can put ourselves in his emotional state at that time”
[Verse 3]
Hahahaha, yeah
These sycophants of a sick system
Out here licking boots ‘cause the status quo benefits them
Fear-monger ‘bout petty crime and addiction
‘Cause law and order upholds their social position
It feels safer with the poor locked in prison
When you know you don’t “fit the description”
Outraged by protests more than police killings
Sickened by the homeless, but who did the evictions? (Heh)
The rich get richer hoarding the assets (Assets)
Trap the underclass, keep ‘em cash-strapped (Cash-strapped)
Kleptocrat, ballin’ with the cabal (Heh)
We dem boys, yeah, we ‘bout that (Heh)
But, funny how there’s never news choppers in my barrio
Invincible, like I grabbed on a star in Mario
They manufacture outrage, I stack the bread
And snatched a bag bigger than Katie Daviscourt’s forehead (Heh)
Four trillion in the bank since Coronavirus (Yeah)
Me and Bill Gates out here stackin’ hella dollars (Racks)
Fuck with the money, we sendin’ out all the goons to riot
Hope you don’t notice how real Gs move in silence (Shhh)
Profit off of poverty, pushin’ Bentleys and Porsches
Fuck a slice of the pie, I need the biggest portion
Violent systems require violent enforcement
Out here steppin’ on necks with the boots
Who do they protect? It ain’t you
Secure the wealth by any means, that’s the move
They wanna talk about "riots and looting"
Hahahahaha
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5. |
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“Louis Harris is one of this nation’s foremost public opinion analysts
His poll takers have tested public sentiment on all the issues
Involving the Black Man and the White Man
Mr. Harris, how much of a change has there been?”
“I think, perhaps, most dramatic is in the area of demonstrations
Where you found, back in 1963, on the eve of the March on Washington
A majority of White people felt that such demonstrations
Could help the cause of Negroes achieving civil rights in this country
Before this summer began, you found it was about 2:1
White people feeling that demonstrations were hurting the Negro cause
At the end of this summer, now we find, in this month of September, 81-19, 4:1
White people think the demonstrations of the Civil Rights Movement hurt the Negro cause”
“What about the so-called ‘White Liberal’”
“Well there’s been a dramatic shift here
Back in 1963, two out of every three White, college-educated, liberal people
Mainly in the North, were in sympathy to the Civil Rights Movement
On the eve of this summer, in May of this year
You found just about 50% of these White Liberals who were sympathetic, a slippage
But at the end of this summer, it’s scarcely more than one in four who feel sympathetic any longer
There’s been a disenchantment among your White Liberals with the Civil Rights Movement”
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6. |
Summer of Love
02:40
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Seasons change but nothing else do
The memories fade and the crowds do too
Politicians pivot back, right on cue
And now you wait for the next man to get shot and killed
Infighting, sabotage, a movement splintered
A Summer of Love turned to a Cruel Winter
But when that rainy season hits can’t wash away all the stains in the social fabric
It’s in too deep
Pain in the hearts of those who fight to the last
Not all heroes wear capes, not all villains wear masks
In real life the bad guys get away clean
Might even climb the ranks of this American regime
I seen ‘em throw somebody’s dead mother’s ashes in the trash and laugh
How the fuck you reform that? (Heh)
It’s not likely, but keep asking politely
’Til then black bloc march nightly
It was the Summer of Love until Summer died
In a hospital bed on the Fourth of July
Blood splattered on I-5
You seen on the stream, Omari cried
Only silver lining, Diaz Love survived
Summer Season sets but the Love still lingers
Despite the tear gas, blast balls and beating-induced seizures
They came out in June, chanting and carrying signs
Now they barricade streets, have you asked yourself why?
Rage and fury just love that’s been wronged
Don’t forget, hungry people don’t stay hungry for long
That’s why them thugs with badges roll out on patrol
So them affluent liberals could cling to they status quo
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere,
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity (Heh)
Word to William Yeats
It’s kinda like a cycle
Words from 1920 echo through time and struggle
Now 100 years later, them same words still true
And how ironic, he was a fascist (Ha)
Maybe there’s a thin line that once you cross you can’t go back from
Reactionary thinking once you seen a world crumbling
Both sides know it, the liberals in the middle blind
Asking why these kids protest all the time
They tired but they can’t sleep
Smoke weed to treat the PTSD
From violent police and encampment sweeps
But like they say, no justice no peace
And wouldn’t you really like some peace?
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