The jury's debating How confident smiles Will transcribe to the page And nobody's saying How millions of rhymers can slip through the cage The worthless reminders Are hoisted and waved like an idiot flag The shackles and blinders Are stacked upon stacked upon stacks Till the floors start to sag
It's just people selling out people Where the coin rolls grow In a head high row It's just 'Please son, listen to reason' It's all perfect treason
Defenses are crumbling From pressure to pull from the braver demands The casualties mumbling How bodies and souls were stripped bare at their hands So perfect is treason When promise is gained from the innocent eye A delicate season Is hanged by the throat and left waiting to die
It's just people selling out people Where the coin rolls grow in a head high row It's just 'Please son, listen to reason' It's all perfect treason
So gawk on the sidewalk At men who are men but not equal to you And save me that pride talk For some later day when I'll need talking to It's just people selling out people Where the coin rolls grown in a head high row It's just 'Please son, listen to reason' It's all perfect treason