Awkword - Throw Away The Key lyrics

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This is Awkword!

It’s not just in Iraq or Afghanistan

Syria, Korea, things are messed up here too man

You gotta wake up and pay attention

We have more people in prison here

Than in any other industrialized nation

And most of those people are black and brown

Most of those people are there for drug offenses

And most drug offenses are non violent

Plus, we got privatized prisons

We got big rich man making money

Of a people going up state

Abandoning the cities that we’re trying to keep alive

Things aren’t right here man, we gotta do something

No more prisons

They just stop them and frisk

You better move real lightly

I heard they got a contest

Ask Bill O’Reilly

Afraid you'll get locked up

They’ll throw away the key

They're free to move across the sea

You ain't even free

Still awaiting retrials for drug deals in New York

Overcrowded Louisiana

California it's sport

Chicago is a wasteland

Even colder in the summer

No education programs

Now they murdering each other

Born into prisons

Most ghetto buildings got bars

When you live without shit

You head and worship them cars

The vista from the stoops

Marine billboards you bored

And on the block you got bars

Drug dealers and whores

Father might be gone

Or he's working two jobs

Stay at home's an oxymoron

Moms working too hard

Latchkey kids

No role models no guidance

No homework eat some Mickey Ds

And get into some violence

They come with they cars and they laws and they bars

They come at you sideways no way you'll get off

And your whole life you heard stay away from them cops

And your word and your balls is all that you got

They come with they cars and they laws and they bars

They come at you sideways no way you'll get off

And your whole life you heard stay away from them cops

And your word and your balls is all that you got

I'm sorry Mr. President

I'm sorry Mr. Senator

I'm sorry Mr. Governor

We can't recover her

See this country of ours

See this world of ours

Was never really yours

We just got a little bored

Nowadays you got to deal

With all breeds of all types

I guess you the type right

To type right all uptight

Pause none of us is goblins

Except that one guy

And that was just one story

Told a bunch of damn times

On the real call this the first

Hint of a problem

And when I say some shit's a problem

It’s not industry jargon

The problem I'm causing

Gonna have the CIA watching

I've seen them take the damn picture

I bleed for the orphans

The sick and the starving the lost ones

Stuck with no options

It's awesome like pulling people

Straight out of their coffins

See we know it's just us

No justice in this bitch

Rest in peace Ron Arm

Forever elementary rich

They come with they cars and they laws and they bars

They come at you sideways no way you'll get off

And your whole life you heard stay away from them cops

And your word and your balls is all that you got

They come with they cars and they laws and they bars

They come at you sideways no way you'll get off

And your whole life you heard stay away from them cops

And your word and your balls is all that you got

So what we gonna do

That’s the question of course

A lot of human beings

Struggled over these thoughts

You got the rules for radicals

The activist handbook

I threw it all away

Let’s create our own standard

There are more locked up here

Than anywhere else

Plus most of them on drug charges

Most never dealt

Most of them in jail

Probably there cause they smelt

Weed crimes fill a hell of a lot

Of the damn cells

Stand still we won't

We stand tall we all

Brave enough to say

Enough is enough so come on

Shit ain't hard to tell

Take a little look around

Feel like everyone in prisons

Either black or they brown

And it's kind of hard for me

To be all black and proud

But I been in the damn system

Seen my friends go down

Smell the wretched of the earth

Hit me on the low

And if anybody ask

I pay tax and don't smoke

They come with they cars and they laws and they bars

They come at you sideways no way you'll get off

And your whole life you heard stay away from them cops

And your word and your balls is all that you got

They come with they cars and they laws and they bars

They come at you sideways no way you'll get off

And your whole life you heard stay away from them cops

And your word and your balls is all that you got