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How Do I Threaten You

from Dirty Basements by Billy Pontius

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Well you made it through the two years
In the police academy
Leaving the monsters under your bed
To chase the monsters on the streets
With the law on your side and a gun
Seems there's nothing you can
But I have to ask please officer
How do i threaten you?

Well you will search my car
Without a warrant or consent
If I protest my human rights
You tell me I'm resisting arrest
take down a disabled man
Because he looks at you wrong
What can you do but
I have to ask one more time
How do i threaten you

Because the law is the law
It must always be upheld
Rodney King and Kelly Thomas
They know that rule very well
But your prisons are made for profit
And you gotta make your quota
Before two
Gotta find yourself a stranger
Tell him he threatened you

The colors of our nation
They are red white and blue
Meant to represent our freedom
Except when i come around you
So as i sit in the back of your cop car
Borken down blacked out bloody and blue
I have to ask just one more time
How do i threaten you

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from Dirty Basements, released March 23, 2014

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Dave Pawlack-piano, washboard, banjo and vocals
Robert Martin- guitar, bass and vocals
Steve Easter-guitar and vocals
Piano on the "Pity Party" album is by Tom Perkins of On The Farm Studio ... more

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