Violence

Violence is the fruit of unreached understanding That flowers from the lips of scoundrels It is a forest so dense and rooted in our past It tempts us to become lost in its darkness And stinks like the piss test you were forced to take Just before you were told that you didn't meet The standards of integrity that this organization strives to maintain Why are there no folk songs about ATM machines That produce the likeness of the blazer of the trail of tears Issuing overdraft fees from beyond the grave Prison TV shows in an endless queue Containing the robust nourishment of a commissary This is why we cannot afford to close an open casket You protect no one by obscuring the mirror That reflects our own problematic reality Allow me to ponder the role I play In this p***ographic spectacle of black death At once a solution and a problem A cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret Violence is daily life A promise a pact that the world never kept Violence is daily life A cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret Violence is daily life A promise a pact that the world never kept Violence is daily life Violence is daily life Violence happens every day It's hard to get used to getting used to violence Savage is my name because Savage is how I feel When the radio wakes me up with the words "suspected gunman" My name is a warning for the acts you are about to witness Which contain images that some viewers may find disturbing My name belongs to us all So if they ask for yours give them mine My name is a threat Riot is an unfinished grave that was dug to deposit undepleted anger Like barrels of uranium leaking into something sacred It is a word to use to delegitimize your unrest And to make your resistance into an overreaction The pink tube of paint called flesh Used in portraits of chairmen of boards and Men who clean up streets named after those who fought For erasing the lives they now claim to protect What is an up and coming neighborhood and where is it coming from? A cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret Violence is daily life A promise a pact that the world never kept Violence is daily life A cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret Violence is daily life A promise a pact that the world never kept Violence is daily life What's wrong with the air you breathe? The water you drink? Violence is so omnipresent So ingrained in your daily reality You forget to notice it happens everyday --- Violence - Parquet Courts