• ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    They’re trying to build a prison

    They’re trying to build a prison

    Following the rights movement, you clamped on with your iron fists

    Drugs became conveniently available for all the kids

    Following the rights movement, you clamped on with your iron fists

    Drugs became conveniently available for all the kids

    I buy my crack, my smack, my removed right here in Hollywood

    (Nearly two million Americans are incarcerated in the prison system, prison system of the US)

    They’re trying to build a prison

    They’re trying to build a prison

    They’re trying to build a prison

    (For you and me to live in)

    Another prison system

    Another prison system

    Another prison system

    (For you and me)

    Minor drug offenders fill your prisons you don’t even flinch

    All our taxes paying for your wars against the new non-rich

    Minor drug offenders fill your prisons you don’t even flinch

    All our taxes paying for your wars against the new non-rich

    I buy my crack, my smack, my removed right here in Hollywood

    (The percentage of Americans in the prison system, prison system, has doubled since 1985)

    They’re trying to build a prison

    They’re trying to build a prison

    They’re trying to build a prison

    (For you and me to live in)

    Another prison system

    Another prison system

    Another prison system

    (For you and me)

    For you and I, you and I, you and I

    You and I

    They’re trying to build a prison

    They’re trying to build a prison

    They’re trying to build a prison for you and me

    Oh, baby, you and me

    Oh

    Oh

    All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increased (Oh)

    And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences (Oh)

    All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increased (Oh)

    And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences

    Utilising drugs to pay for secret wars around the world

    Drugs are now your global policy, now you police the globe

    I buy my crack, my smack, my removed right here in Hollywood

    Drug money is used to rig elections and train brutal corporate sponsored dictators around the world

    They’re trying to build a prison

    They’re trying to build a prison

    They’re trying to build a prison

    (For you and me to live in)

    Another prison system

    Another prison system

    Another prison system

    (For you and me)

    For you and I, you and I, you and I

    You and me

    They’re trying to build a prison

    They’re trying to build a prison

    They’re trying to build a prison for you and me

    Oh, baby, you and me