Here is the questioning. Here is the protest song.
You know what’s great? Activist music. Especially when it’s screaming heavy metal.
Like this track from Los Angeles band System of a Down. Here are the lyrics:
Prison Song
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prisonFollowing the rights movements
You clamped down with your iron fists.
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids.
Following the rights movements
You clamped down with your iron fists.
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids.I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch,
Right here in HollywoodNearly 2 million Americans are incarcerated
In the prison system of the U.S.They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
For you and me to live in.
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison systemMinor drug offenders fill your prisons
You don’t even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars
Against the new non-rich,
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
You don’t even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars
Against the new non-richI buy my crack, my smack, my bitch,
Right here in HollywoodThe percentage of Americans in the prison system (prison system), has doubled since 1985
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
For you and me, you and meThey’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
For you and me
Oh baby, you and meAll research and successful drug policy shows
That treatment should be increased,
And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences.
All research and successful drug policy shows
That treatment should be increased
And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences.Utilizing drugs to pay for secret wars around the world,
Drugs are now your global policy,
Now you police the globe.I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch,
Right here in HollywoodDrug money is used to rig elections
And train brutal corporate-sponsored
Dictators around the world.They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
For you and me to live in.
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
For you and me
They’re trying to build a prison,
They’re trying to build a prison,
They’re trying to build a prison,
For you and me.
Oh baby, you and me!
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June 9th, 2011 at 15h42
Between the two biggest contributors on this site other than I, one is a big fan of System of a Down and one loathes them. This could be fun.
The title, by the way, is a reference to the Sleater-Kinney song Combat Rock, which previously appeared on the site (eight years ago!):