(feat. 50 Cent)
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When reason dies behind closed doors
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Face down in a cell in a pool of piss
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It's time to fear what we should respect
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It's time to question cause and effect
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Striking with impunity
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Hiding behind flags of immunity
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When corruption rears its ugly head
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The force of law becomes a farce
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Personal ambition usurps justice
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The rich protected at the expense of the poor
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Would you sit on the fence, take no chance?
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As those batons fall, turn a blind eye
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In an ideal world
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There'd be no need for law
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No need for police
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But in a society so sick
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So obsessed with blind greed
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Someone has to protect
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The old and the weak
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Officer down
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Can we really afford to be so selectively blind?
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If we dig too deep what would we find?
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At authority's heart beats a dollar sign
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Under such a regime we're all doing time
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Striking with impunity
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Hiding behind flags of immunity
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Never say, you weren't warned
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When they come to drag you away
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To silence the dissident hiding in us all
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They clench the fist of ordained might
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From which side of the barbed wire
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Do you want to see your life pass by?
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When reason dies behind closed doors
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Face down in a cell in a pool of piss
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It's time to fear what we should respect
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It's time to question
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Cause and effect
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Who teaches the teachers?
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Who makes laws for lawmakers?
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When they read us our rights
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What about human rights?
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Officer Down
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Kardinal Offishall |