Violence

Violence is the fruit of unreached understanding
 That flower from the lips of scoundrels
 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 that you
 Didn't meet the standards of integrity
 That this organization strives to maintain
 Why are there no folk songs about ATM machines
 That produce the likeness of the blazer of the trail of tears
 Issuing overdraft fees from beyond the grave
 Prison TV shows in an endless queue
 Containing the robust nourishment of a commissary
 This is why we cannot afford 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 spectacle of black death
 At once a solution and a problem
 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
 A cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret
 Violence is daily life
 Yeah, a promise a pact that the world never kept
 Violence is daily life
 Violence is daily life
 Violence happens every day
 It's hard to get used to getting used to violence
 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
 Which contain images that some viewers may find disturbing
 My name belongs to us all
 So if they ask for yours give them mine
 My name is a threat
 Riot is an unfinished grave that was dug to deposit undepleted anger
 Like barrels of uranium leaking into something sacred
 It is a word to use to delegitimize your unrest
 And to make your resistance into an overreaction
 The pink tube of paint called flesh
 Used in portraits of chairmen of boards
 And men who clean up streets named after those
 Who fought for erasing the lives they now claim to protect
 What is an up and coming neighborhood and where is it coming from?
 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
 A cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret
 Violence is daily life
 Yeah, a promise a pact that the world never kept
 Violence is daily life