Tonart: Bb major
Verse 1
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a convicted full -time burglar
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G
made a prison break
He lasted three weeks on the run,
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got his father's the next day
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So they brought him back
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and sentenced him to fifteen years of hell
Set up to the shoe at Pelican Bay
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in a solitary cell
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Well he said there's nothing to it
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To him self as they slammed the door
On an eight by ten foot cubicle
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A bed and not much more
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It's the Pelican Bay supermax
The counter to count the days
Of endless isolation
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Lost in a one -room maze
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Now there's two million
people in prison
Tonight in the USA
Eighty thousand in solitary
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A hunger strike on Pelican Bay
Well, day and night, fluorescent light
They shove your food in through a slot
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So you'll never see no one
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It's a 23 -hour lockdown
You'll never leave
You can hardly breathe
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It rots away your soul
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G
Well, there's 2 million people in prison
Not in the USA
80 ,000 at Supermax
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And a hungry strike on Pilken Bay
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Well, he made him self a chestnut
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Dm
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out of blackened lint
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But the guys were feeling angry,
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so they confiscated it
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For the slightest of infractions,
extracted from his cell
Pretty soon he got a broken
jaw
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and the guy just says he fell
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Now there's two million
people in prison
tonight in the USA
80 ,000 in solitary
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and a hundred stock on Pelican Bank
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Well, it ain't no kind of justice
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It's a system of abuse
There ain't no courts watching
over it
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Politicians say what's the use
We've got the highest rate
of incarceration
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in the world
Half the prisoners are black
It's a brand of slavery
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Everybody knows the dead gets fat
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Out is two million people in prison
Tonight in the USA
Eighty thousand in supermax
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And a hundred strike on Pelican Bay
Pelican Bay
Pelican Bay
Pelican Bay
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Alright
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You
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