Shut Em Down [The Functionist Version]

Shut Em Down [The Functionist Version] Lyrics

Song Shut Em Down [The Functionist Version]
Artist Public Enemy
Album Revolverlution
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[00:24.02] I testified
[00:34.69] My mama cried
[00:40.03] Black people died
[00:44.79] When the other man lied
[00:48.96] See the TV listen to me double trouble
[00:55.35] From the lower level
[00:57.69] I'm takin' tabs
[00:59.90] Sho 'nough stuff to grab
[01:01.65] Like shirts it hurts
[01:03.55] With a neck to wreck
[01:17.32] Took a poll 'cause our soul
[01:23.00] Took a toll
[01:25.34] From the education
[01:28.57] Of a TV station
[01:31.87] But look around
[01:33.16] Hear go the sound of the wreckin' ball
[01:36.31] Boom and Pound
[01:38.27] When I
[01:39.86] Shut 'em down
[01:41.29] One two three four five
[01:44.92] Six seven eight nine
[01:48.48] What I use in the battle for the mind
[01:51.74] I hit it hard
[01:56.68] Like it supposed
[01:59.53] Pullin' no blows to the nose
[02:02.38] Like uncle L said I'm rippin' up shows
[02:09.40] Then what it is
[02:13.96] Only five percent of the biz
[02:30.40] I'm addin' woes
[02:35.99] That's how da way it goes
[02:40.51] Then you think I rank never drank point blank
[02:48.03] I own loans
[02:49.73] Suckers got me runnin' from the bank
[02:53.33] Civil liberty I can't see to pay a fee
[02:55.56] I never saw a way to pay a sap
[02:57.68] To read the law
[02:59.31] Don't know ya never saw ya
[03:01.66] Tape cued
[03:03.01] Gettin' me sued
[03:05.33] Playin' games with' my head
[03:07.86] What the judge said put me in the red
[03:13.59] Got me thinkin' 'bout a trigger to the lead
[03:17.18] No no
[03:18.99] My education mind say
[03:20.98] Suckers gonna pay
[03:25.72] Anyway
[03:27.01] There gonna be a day
[03:31.01] 'Cause the troop they roll in
[03:36.93] To posse up
[03:40.00] Whole from the ground
[03:43.04] Ready to go
[03:52.02] Throw another round
[03:57.23] Sick of the ride
[03:59.40] It's suicide
[04:01.93] For the other side of town
[04:05.02] When I find a way to shut 'em down
[04:08.00] Who count the money
[04:10.01] In da neighborhood
[04:11.89] But we spendin' money
[04:13.49] To no end lookin' for a friend
[04:16.36] In a war to the core
[04:18.29] Rippin' up the poor in da stores
[04:21.19] Till they get a brother
[04:23.04] Kickin' down doors
[04:24.86] Then I figure I kick it bigger
[04:27.09] Look 'em dead in the eye
[04:29.96] And they wince
[04:31.91] Defense is pressurized
[04:34.50] They don't want it to be
[04:41.98] Another racial attack
[04:45.72] In disguise so give some money back
[04:49.97] I like Nike but wait a minute
[04:56.35] The neighborhood supports so put some
[05:05.66] Money in it
[05:08.67] Corporations owe
[05:11.77] They gotta give up the dough
[05:15.19] To da town
[05:16.86] Or else
[05:22.17] We gotta shut 'em down
Shut Em Down [The Functionist Version] Lyrics
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