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Crime To Be Broke In America
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Michael Franti & Spearhead
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I take the needle off the record*
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And shove it in my arm
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Whenever I feel life is
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Comin' on too strong
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They left me in a clinic fulla
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Cynical motha fuckin' bureaucrats
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And other kinda ding bats
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Livin' on the tracks
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The tracks in my arm said
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It all depends which side the tracks your on.
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Tellin' me what to wear
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Tellin me cut my hair
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And tryin' to convince me that they
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Really really care
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All about my health and about my wealth
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But still they built the Stealth
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'cause everybody's
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Just lookin' out for they self
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So then I ask 'em
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Can I have a clean needle
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"Hell no that's illegal!"
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[Chorus:]
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'Cause it's a crime to be broke in America!
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And it's a crime to smoke dank in America!
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[Repeat:]
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"Yeah hit those drums now"
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They lockin' brother's in the poorhouse
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Who can't afford Moorhouse
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Politicians nervous
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It's the only free service they provide
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You wanna go inside
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There's a hot meal waitin' for ya
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A deal we can score ya
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On a bed for a night or two
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Or three or four months.
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They say they lockin' us up in cells
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To protect us from ourselves
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It smells like they got anotha
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Plan in store house
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Or should I say warehouse
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Fulla niggas and other misfits
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That couldn't turn tricks in the courthouse
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It's a justice whorehouse
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[Chorus]
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It's a crime to be broke in America!
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And it's a crime to be Black in America!
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But there's a mutiny on the bounty
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In ever single county
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We remember Attica
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But don't forget to pat a few
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Other on the back as a matter of fact
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Sister Asatta Shakur and Geronimo Pratt
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'cause Amnesty international
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Is fightin' for political
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But if your analytical
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You know it's much more critical than that
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Percentages black is really, really whack
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Can I kick a few facts yes?
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Sx percent in college
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From livin on the block
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Twenty five percent in prison
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The school of hard knocks
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Fifty percent in poverty
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Is livin on the rocks
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Five hundred brothas on a death row box
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The punishment is capital
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For those who lack in capital
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Because a public defender
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Can't remember the last time
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That a brother wasn't treated like an animal.
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They say they blame it on a song
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When someone kills a cop
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What music did they listen to
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When they bombed Iraq?
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Give me one example so I can take a sample
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No need to play it backwards
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If you wanna hear the devil
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Cause music's not the problem
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It didn't cause the bombin'
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But maybe they should listen
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To the songs of people starving..
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[Chorus]
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'Cause it's a Crime to be broke in America!
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It's a crime to smoke dank in America!
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It's a crime to be black in America!
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It's a crime to be black in America!
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It's a crime to be Puerto Rican
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African
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Native American
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Asian Hatian
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