Shut Em Down - The Functionist Version

Lyrics

Hold it, now
 Come on, come on
 All right, y'all
 I testified, my mama cried
 Black people died when the other man lied
 See the TV, listen to me, double trouble
 I overhaul and I'm coming from the lower level
 I'm taking tabs, sure enough, stuff to grab
 Like shirts and it hurts with a neck to wreck
 Took a poll 'cause our soul took a toll
 From the education of a TV station
 But look around, here go the sound of the wrecking ball
 Boom and pound when I shut 'em down
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 Come on
 All right
 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine
 What I use in a battle for the mind
 Hit it hard like you're suppose
 Pull no blows to the nose
 Like Uncle L said, I'm rippin' up shows
 Paying what it is is only five percent of the biz
 I'm adding woes, that's the way it goes
 Then you think I rank I never drank, point blank
 I own loans, suckers got me running from the bank
 Civil liberty, I can't see to pay a fee
 I never saw a way to pay a sap to read the law
 Then become a victim of a lawyer
 Don't know ya, never saw ya
 Tape cued, getting me sued
 Playing games with my head, what the judge said
 Put me in the red, got me thinking 'bout a trigger to the leg
 No, no, my educated mind say
 Suckers gonna pay anyway, there gonna be a day
 'Cause the troop they roll in
 The posse up whole from the ground
 Ready to go, throw another round
 Sick of the ride, it's suicide for the other side of town
 When I find a way to shut 'em down
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 Hold it
 Come on
 All right, y'all
 Alright, y'all
 Come on, now
 Hey
 Who count the money in the neighborhood?
 But we spending money to no end, looking for a friend
 In a war to the core, ripping up the poor in the stores
 Until they get a brother kicking down doors
 Then I figure I can get bigger, look 'em dead in the eye
 And they wince, defense is pressurized
 They don't really want it to be another racial attack in disguise
 So give some money back
 I like Nike, but wait a minute
 The neighborhood supports, so put some money in it
 All corporations owe, they gotta give up the dough
 To my town or else we gotta shut 'em down
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 I shut 'em down
 (Shut 'em down, shut 'em, shut 'em down)
 All right, y'all, one more time, here we go again
 All right, come on
 Uh, get down, hold it, come on
 Wait a minute now
 Huh
 Hey, hey, hey
 Yeah, yeah, I know you got soul
 Pump the beat, pump the beat
 The fall beat, y'all
 Uh, bring it low, bring it low, bring it low, y'all
 Howdy, y'all
 This is Bernie Crosshouse, yours truly of the KKK.
 I'd like to express our deepest gratitude at the destruction of the inferior nigger race
 And I'm especially pleased to report it's destroyin' itself without our help
 To all you gangs, hoodlums, drug pushers and users
 And other worthless niggers killin' each other
 We'd like to thank y'all for savin' us the time, trouble and legality
 For the final chapter of riddin' y'all off the face of the Earth
 Your solution to our problem is greatly appreciated
 So keep selling us your soul
 Thank you

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Song Details

Duration
05:28
Key
10
Tempo
180 BPM

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