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RISE
01:57
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You gotta rise up
You gotta rise up
You gotta
If you’re wondering which rich bitch’s bets will bankrupt the banks this year, if you’re worried about how that fat cat will react when they hear that you’re queer, if you’re filled with fright about which right might be gutted by the court overnight, when collective power is under attack, you gotta stand up and you gotta fight back
You gotta stand up
You gotta rise up
You gotta rise up
You gotta take a stand
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PROPERTY DAMAGE
03:08
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900 bucks for rent, plus another for a pet, and that should be, don’t forge, a third of your income. Working over 9-5 just to make enough to survive while you sit on your ass and watch us suffer.
You leech, you leech, you leech, you
582k homeless people here today, so tell me why the fuck you need 5 houses? What’s a New Yorker have to do with a 1 bath 4 bedroom falling apart row house in Pennsylvania?
Eviction is violence, resist and you’ll be silenced. Bloodshed in my neighborhood while you were on an island. Sipping on dry martinis that you bought renting properties that you only own because of daddy’s trust fund.
You leech, you leech, you leech, you’re
Just like a corporation, blaming price hikes on inflation, while you’re making record profits, something doesn’t add up. Most don’t even want to rent but Fannie Mae & Mac meant every home we could afford is already in your hoard.
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SHOOT 'EM DOWN
02:32
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When he’s walking down the street inconspicuously you shoot him,
You shoot him down, you shoot him down, you shoot him down, you shoot him.
And when she’s dreaming, she is sleeping so peacefully and you shoot her.
Without making a sound you break the door down, no “get on the ground” and you shoot her.
You say you protect and serve but year by year, bodies pile up, with no weapons, with no guns. So to say you serve us, you must have a lot of guts cause all you protect, all I see, is corporate interests and white supremacy.
To say you protect and serve you must have a lot of nerve cause all I see, all you do, all I see all you do is shoot ‘em down
When he’s walking down the street inconspicuously you shoot him,
You shoot him down, you shoot him down, you shoot him down, you shoot him.
When you pull him over for a busted light you shoot him. He’s already down, bleeding out on the ground, he’s already down and you shoot him.
To say you protect and serve, you must have a lot of nerve cause all you protect, all I see, is corporate interests and white supremacy.
To say you protect and serve, you must have a lot of nerve cause all you protect, all I see, is corporate interests and white supremacy.
To say you protect and serve you must have a lot of nerve cause all I see, all you do, all I see all you do is shoot ‘em down
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YDK
02:19
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So you’re on the grind, and you don’t mind working yourself to the bone just to afford your home, and it will distract you from the simple fact you could have had it on the first if you were paid for what your labor is worth
You don’t know how bad you got it, just because you can eat doesn’t mean you should be content with a semi-fascist president
Richest country in the world can’t afford healthcare, can’t afford welfare, can’t afford childcare. Always something in the tank left to bail out a bank, for a defense contract, and you fucking believe that?
You don’t know how bad you got it, just because you can eat doesn’t mean you should be content with a semi-fascist president
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Bala Rise and the Uprising Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
working class hardcore punk from pittsburgh, pa.
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Bala Rise (vox) / Eve Ruley (guitar) / Eli Mignogna (drums) /D.B. Lawless (bass)
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