| Mmm, mmm, Yeah, yeah,
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| try to lock you down, yeah, yeah
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| Shooting the stars, lock you away for nothing
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| Blood on the streets,
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| Seems like they do what they feel
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| I’ve seen a silent man thrown in a riot van,
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| hands behind his back strapped tight keeps him quiet but he wasn’t ever violent,
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| officers scratching off their numbers so they can’t be identified or ever get
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| in trouble.
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| Please understand the struggle it’s like no where there’s the love,
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| how’s a kid supposed to feel when he’s always getting stopped 'cause the area
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| he’s from might gun you down if you run.
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| Shooting the stars, lock you away for nothing
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| Blood on the streets
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| Seems like they do what they feel
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| Shooting the stars, lock you away for nothing
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| Blood on the streets
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| Seems like they kill when they feel
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| And they can. |
| Try and lock away an individual, but they can never lock and
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| chain your spiritual.
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| Your body may be trapped but your minds never stopped and I wing all that block,
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| for them years all them months.
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| It don’t make sense when I see rapists getting sentenced less then men who rob,
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| to send their kids to school with food in their belly and a roof over their
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| head and sheets to keep them warm in their bed.
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| They shot an innocent man they, on the tube last year,
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| so tell us how we’re not supposed to fear if I get stopped and searched for the
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| way that I look and then charged with a crime that was never ever due.
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| I’ve seen my mum crying tears when they mention the year behind bars for what
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| the said that I did but they could never convict.
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| Yeah, they can kill you and get away with it.
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| Or take Oscar ran off a chain and while two officers hold him down,
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| shoot him in the back of the head like no body ever hears a sound,
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| yeah like no body ever hears a sound.
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| And two officers hold him down and shoot him in the back of the head,
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| like no body’s ever gonna hear a sound.
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| No, no, shooting the stars, lock you away for nothing
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| Blood on the streets
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| Seems like they do what they feel
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| Shooting the stars, lock you away for nothing
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| Blood on the streets
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| Seems like kill when they feel
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| Ooh ooh Ohh, yeah yeah yeah, down
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| Seems like they kill when they feel. |