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ManLISSEN (Strangest Fruit)

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Lyrics

Fighting fire with fire's just the go ahead for them burning crosses
Even the cost of living's less than what our living costs us
and these grand juries just bury the leads 
on the lead
buried in people for cops overturning losses
of original crime bosses
Officers riding in squad cars like overseers on high horses
Claiming divine causes
but question the abuse and they run through excuses when their mind pauses
Good cops get blue balls stuck behind blue walls 
built for goons acting like Special Forces
Flamethrowers in a concrete jungle
Heat up the block, and leave you sautéed in your red sauces
Out in the field they don't know how to yield
Fantasizing like they're Director Coulson when the S.H.I.E.L.D flosses
We used to play Cops & Robbers as kids
Not knowing it was a setup for bids and closed coffin lids...

Black people trying to say we got a right to live too but these dudes want proof -- ManLISSEN
They still got us by the neck, strange fruit, placing bets on if we make it past youth -- ManLISSEN
and we claim to be a Nation Under God how the Tree of Life ah bleed from the root? -- ManLISSEN...

I don't condone cop killers; they just get fans regardless
as kids try to taste the rainbow and get fed to the heartless
Every day is like a walk in the valley of shadow
Even if you on the straight and narrow, you a crooked target
Dudes are trippin' like they stuck on rock
Crackin' the holster and aiming for your back and your armpits
Instead of lookin' for facts like Trebek
Media spins like Sajak for the departments
Just like a test effin' us up in the worst fashion
actions louder than social media comments
I cram to understand huntin' Blacks for the habit
Next thing they lockin' down nuns in the convents
Who needs to read the warrant, when they got Kevlar garments
for decompression of civilian compartments?
You think I beg for justice? I beg your pardon
They claiming it's a few bad eggs, never checkin’ the cartons?!?

Black people trying to say we got a right to live too but these dudes want proof -- ManLISSEN
They still got us by the neck, strange fruit, placing bets on if we make it past youth -- ManLISSEN
and we claim to be a Nation Under God how the Tree of Life ah bleed from the root? -- ManLISSEN...
These snakes in the grass ah rather nyam pon de---

[Meanwhile, at the Legion of Doom], politicians flip funds to militarize
guerrillas blues with killer eyes to lower the boom
on the villagers, tactics similar 
to Nazis any war tribunal would criminalize
symbolic of subliminal ties
to the frontal lobe they would use to minimalize
familial cries for an undeserved demise
a step further to vilify, dehumanize and euthanize
anyone not unionized in the Bluest Eye
meaning you and I are caught up in a game of Do or Die
They love the black-on-black crime, gettin' dime from your grime
Fears of the Black Planet streets unified
and no matter what the answers would prove
I would doubt the Feds question the Klan like it was King or the Panthers and MOVE
Why dumb down the rundown
while getting tasered, choked up, and gunned down?

Black people trying to say we got a right to live too but these dudes want proof -- ManLISSEN
They still got us by the neck, strange fruit, placing bets on if we make it past youth -- ManLISSEN
and we claim to be a Nation Under God how the Tree of Life ah bleed from the root? -- ManLISSEN...
These snakes in the grass would rather nyam pon dem flesh than feed from the truth - chu!