Don't support the war on crime

Innocent people are doing time

More and more cops and more jails

This solution to crime is gonna fail

Don't you see what they're trying to do

They're not concerned with your safety

They want to control you congress passes

More oppressive laws then they lock us away

Wall street perpetuates poverty then they lock us away

The media creates hysteria then they lock us away

Soon the whole country will be under martial law

Then they'll lock us all away

People have always been the same

There's always been asshole who should be locked away

such as murderers, rapists and all politicians

But now there's people getting locked away for no reason

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Incarceration the death penalty

Do nothing to reduce crime it distracts us

From fighting the social conditions

which create this insane violence

such as poverty and racism and sexism and homelessness

The only way to fight against crime

is to put human need before profit

Don't support the war on crime

Innocent people are doing time

We're denied health care, education and housing

Domestic violence and child abuse is never ending

But none of these atrocities are seen as crime

Neither is sending someone off to war to die