MOVE from Phila by Escape the Stake
Tracklist
| 3. | MOVE | 2:58 |
Lyrics
Philadelphia, 1985
not a lot of people survived that day and even less of them are still alive
you’ve all seen cops busting down doors
but what about when they burn down six city blocks?
yeah, i bet you’ve never heard of that before
the group wanted freedom, the mayor wasn’t having it
they said it had to do with noise complaints but they never really gave shit
they just wanted an excuse to go picking fights
and drop a fucking bomb on a neighborhood full of people that would have been fine if they were white
government sanctioned terrorism
that’s the kind of shit you get with the system
look at the pigs go, yeah, they’re on a mission
burning it down if it don’t fit their vision
move
move
move, move, move
when the fire department came they were given instructions
‘don’t even try to put out the flames, we’re gonna gun down the people who are running’
they had to know there were kids inside
so of course the blood is on police hands when all but one of those kids fucking died
government sanctioned terrorism
that’s the kind of shit you get with the system
look at the pigs go, yeah, they’re on a mission
burning it down if it don’t fit their vision
move
move
move, move, move
it would be closer to being fine
if everyone who made this happen sat in jail until the day they died
but no one ever got locked up
yeah, they were never even prosecuted, and they still don’t give a fuck
government sanctioned terrorism
that’s the kind of shit you get with the system
look at the pigs go, yeah, they’re on a mission
burning it down if it don’t fit their vision
move
move
move, move, move
