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Mourning In America

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Mourning In America

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[Intro]

I don't usually use those big words

Cause I don't usually deal with big people

I find you can get a whole lot of small people

And whip hell out of a whole lot of big people

[Verse 1]

Murder murder murder kill kill kill

Cannibals walk the earth and get ill blood spill

Eyes sunk deep in their skull their bone chill

Few for survival most for the thrill

Terrorism is the war of the poor

Hold up a mirror so the script get flipped

Cause when it's in reverse it ain't wrong no more

Cause warfare's the terrorism of the rich

Who's the true guerrilla

When the bomb is on your body killing innocent civilians

But a life is a life and a killer is a killer

You're at a desk chillin' push a button kill a million

See the anguish of the parents

When they're carrying the body of the baby that they cherish

When innocent people perish

It's a very thin line between a soldier and a terrorist

[Hook (x2)]

Murder murder, kill kill kill

Death and destruction a cap get pealed

Harm or heal, destroy and rebuild

Shots still ring out, the blood still spill

[Verse 2]

Overseas we can mutilate and mangle

Let me give you an example what our troops are coming back to

Cold cities where the youth are getting strangled

The community in peril and our future looking narrow

Your school already failed you

The boys in blue will nail you, they salute you with a barrel

The streets are a certified dead zone

Decorated with chalk lines and headstones

All the way live and every night the bullets flying

Even if you ain't dying, you a traumatized survivor

When you grow up in a climate of overriding violence

You will never get beyond it it'll always be inside you

And death just surrounds you

Fallen classmates' ghosts haunt you

Crime just calls you cause you look at what you walk through

Ain't certain if you'll make it ain't sure you even want to

[Hook (x2)]

Murder murder, kill kill kill

Death and destruction a cap get pealed

Harm or heal, destroy and rebuild

Shots still ring out, the blood still spill

[Choir]

Tears and sorrow block the sunlight

Head low heart broke eyes closed tongue-tied

Waters raise the tide is climbing

Speeding time the sky is crying

Shots are fired bombs and sirens

War and riots mourning in America

[Verse 3]

Now that society forgot you

And they locked you in an obstacle course where nothing's possible

If you slip up and they caught you

They got boxes where they lock you make a million dollars off you

They rule you too rude to school

They screw you in a booth shoot electricity through you

Or inject death into you

On a television set and just let it ooze through you

Every time a leader tries to stand up for our freedom

Someone claps them with the heater their brain and back leaking

A shame their family grieving and the only way to see them

Is a displaced dream displayed in a museum

They say they built our nation for a reason

Then they stained it with the bleeding of the slaves that never seen it

I ain't hating I still want to believe it

And I'm not trying to leave it, I just call it how I see it

[Hook (x2)]

Murder murder, kill kill kill

Death and destruction a cap get pealed

Harm or heal, destroy and rebuild

Shots still ring out, the blood still spill

[Outro]

They haven't got anything to lose

And they've got everything to gain

And they'll let you know in a minute

It takes two to tango; when I go, you go

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