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Keep It In The Family

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Keep It In The Family

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Mankind,

The public enemy's not the man who speaks his mind

The public enemy's the man that goes and acts blind

Searching for an answer that he'll never find

An action from reaction and you can't make a retraction

Once you've put your head out

And then you're blue in the face,

As you try to state your case

You can think with your dick but it can't shout

Yo, I try to understand what the hell is going on

I can't imagine how things ever got so far gone

You separatists, say you want your own state

I'll give them a state, a state of unconsciousness

Retribution, no solution, constitution

Discrimination, through the nation, raining hatred

I yell, when there's schism you must rebel

I yell, so you'll hear

I yell, I refuse to live, in, your hell

I am what you fear

I'm the truth, I don't keep it in the family

Live your life, take someone else

Keep it in the family

The real world's outside your door

You can't keep it in the family

You've got the longest way to fall

Keep it in the family

Don't even try to tell me what you think is right

When to you blacks are niggers and jews are kikes

And you expect to be taken seriously

But your actions, they're more than curiously

Juvenile, you emulate what you hate

And you don't even know why you feel this way

'Cause daddy hated this and mommy hated that

And your own ability to reason's like a tire gone flat

Yo, I try to understand what the hell is going on

I can't imagine how things ever got so far gone

You separatists, say you want your own state

I'll give them a state, a state of unconsciousness

Retribution, no solution, constitution

Discrimination, through the nation, raining hatred

I yell, when there's schism you must rebel

I yell, so you'll hear

I yell, I refuse to live, in, your hell

I am what you fear

I'm the truth, I don't keep it in the family

Live your life, take someone else

Keep it in the family

The real world's outside your door

You can't keep it in the family

You've got the longest way to fall

When you keep it in the, when you keep it in the,

When you keep it in the family

Acting out of pure cold hatred

'Cause of what another's race is

Color of another's face is

Different, and your own frustrations

Taking on a violent nature

Full of hate, so full of hate

You'd kill a man is that your fate

Your street becomes a police state

Why the hell do you hate?!

Hate, hate!!!

I'm not gonna stand for it

Someone's gonna pay for it

I yell, we rebel

We're the truth and we won't keep it in the family

Live your life, take someone else

Keep it in the family

I'm the thing that you most fear

I don't keep it in the family

I am the truth you won't hear

Keep it in the family

You can't keep it in the family

You've got the longest way to fall

Keep it in the family

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