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Yuppie Ghost Towns

from Love & Rage by Thought Crime Collective

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Strip-malls, skyscrapers, suburbs as far as the eye can see?

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"Yuppie Ghost Towns"

Hook:

The rich want class war?
We’ll bring it blatantly!
Fuck the triway agency
developing complacency
erasin’ the
cultural vitality
city council bribery
democracys fallacy
pigs protecting dynasties
Upper class immunity
fantasy
Slugs fo those who try to manage me
Defend our communities
Were ready to shoot
Excecute like a mutiny
Defend our communities


These words spoken through a haze of blunts rolled
The world’s provokin’ me to blow some gun smoke
Ran outta patience, so I hoped ya’ll might help me choke…
the bastard who robbed me of my time and left me broke, …
all it takes is one more boss sayin’ I’m let go,
now murder, murders, murders all I wrote
Bout to turn me psycho
ask me what I fight for…
Hope you might know,
where your sight goes…
Everytime you see a bum on the street
Told to turn the other cheek,
Just once, don’t look away or grit your teeth,
Maybe used to have a family, best believe
Now Police harass them for panhandling or weed
Locked in the clink, or ambulances, it seems
A coffin, the poor been vanishing far too often
Jails overflowing, what’s the social costs when
Detention camps are being built,
where are we going? Where’s the guilt?
Too long peeps livin’ on streets had their blood spilt
Lost it all, savings killed in the mortgage crisis
Blame it on predatory lending devices
A Stock market of privatized profits
And Socialized losses
Payin’ the debts of the rich
Makes me nauseous
yuppie scum
are so obnoxious,
Face it… wall st… lost it
more than a few bad apples,
The whole orchard is rotten

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from Love & Rage, released June 1, 2009

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3. Contention or competition between rivals.
4. Contest, controversy, combat, warfare.
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