Tom: A minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Violence is the fruit of
unreached understanding
That flowers from the lips of scoundrels
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It is a forest so dense
and rooted in our past
It tempts us to become lost in its darkness
And stinks like the piss test you
were forced to take
Just before you were told
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The standards of integrity that this or
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ganization strives to maintain
Verse 2
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Why are there no folk songs
about ATM machines
That produce the likeness of
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the blazer of the trail of tears
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Issuing overdraft fees from
beyond the grave
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Prison TV shows in an endless queue
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Con taining the robust
nourishment of a commissary
This is why we cannot afford
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to close an open casket
You protect no one by
obscuring the mirror
That reflects our own problematic reality
Allow me to ponder the role I play
In this pornographic
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At once a solution and a problem
Verse 3
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cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret
Violence is daily life
A promise a pact that the
world never kept
Violence is daily life
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Verse 4
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cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret
Violence is daily life
A promise a pact that the
world never kept
Verse 5
Violence is daily life
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Violence is daily life
Violence happens every day
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It's hard to get used to getting
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used to violence
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
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Savage is my name because Savage
is how I feel
When the radio wakes me up with
the words "suspected gunman"
My name is a warning for the acts
you are about to witness
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Which contain images that
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some viewers may find disturbing
My name belongs to us all
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So if they ask for yours give them mine
Verse 7
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Riot is an unfinished grave that was dug
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to deposit undepleted anger
Like barrels of uranium leaking
into something sacred
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It is a word to use to
delegitimize your unrest
And to make your resistance
Verse 8
into an overreaction
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The pink tube of paint called flesh
Used in portraits of chairmen
of boards and
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Men who clean up streets named
after those who fought
For erasing the lives they now
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claim to protect
What is an up and coming neighbor
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hood and where is it coming from?
Verse 9
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A cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret
Violence is daily life
A promise a pact that the
world never kept
Violence is daily life
Verse 10
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A cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret
Violence is daily life
A promise a pact that the
world never kept
Violence is daily life
Verse 11
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What's wrong with the air you breathe?
The water you drink?
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Vi olence is so omnipresent
So ingrained in your daily reality
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You forget to notice it happens everyday
Outro 1
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