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Down

from All Is Not Well by Manhole

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DOWN
Featuring Lynn Strait of Snot R.I.P

They say that equality is for everyone
Black and white
Rich and poor
Male
And female

Bullshit and you can fuck that
American dream
Living in America
I know what it means
To be on welfare
Have no healthcare
Walk down the street
And be scared
And unprepared for a system
That's built on hate
And gives permission to rape
Discriminates against color
While it wrecks
And disrespects my sex
I ain't down

Down for the system
That's why I resist them
Lied to and betrayed
Listen...

Motherfuck the establishment
And all that it stands for
Censor and dismiss the media
And demands for
Sexual commodities
Equality void
With anorexic images
Of bodies destroyed
From diets to pills
To throwing up till it kills
Continual false definition
Of what sells
Ten pounds thinner
Miss America winner
But I ain't down
You can keep your
Motherfuckin' crown

Not down for the system
That's why I resist them
Lied to and betrayed

You've got to raise the critical questions
Bout their intentions
That you were taught to believe
Taking it from the system
That's set up to deceive
Based on lies that were taught
To you in school
History's been polluted
They're treating you like a fool
If you think that they're
Playing it straight today
It's up to you to find out
And make it your own way
Don't buy the lies
They try to disguise
You say you wanna be down
You gotta tear it down

So you say that you're
Politically minded
But you stay blinded
Looking for the truth
Eyes closed
You can't find it
They keep deceiving us
We keep believing it
But the way I'm seeing it
Here's how I''m feeling it

At 10...you suck
At 9.....you're fucked
At 8.....you're a sucker
At 7.....a motherfucker
At 6.....you're jacked
At 5.....straight wack
At 4.....you're a clown
All the way to one
And we're done
Are ya down

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from All Is Not Well, released April 15, 1996
Lyrics & Vocals - Tairrie B.
Guest Vocals - Lynn Strait (Snot) R.I.P
Guitar - Scott Ueda
Bass - Rico Villasenor
Drums - Marcelo Palomino

Produced by Ross Robinson
Engineered by Chuck Johnson & Rob Agnello
Mixed by Ross Robinson & Chuck Johnson
Recorded @ Indigo Ranch Studios Malibu, Ca.
Mastered by Alan Yoshida @ A&M Studios - Hollywood, Ca.
Originally Released on Noise Records 1996
Cover Photo by Steve Tirona | Concept Tairrie B.

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