1] Was an ordinary day, sky was stormy gray Then I got a call from Mary, sounded worried, me hurry, "On my away" Was my response, didn't wait for her to even try and her explanation, walked up she was crying in her palms Sitting on the steps, all her belongings on the lawn I'm like Nancy Drew Dick Tracy, got a nasty crew, crazy Rhythm addict that's like Scorsese Either or hate me but I do it for the babies and She was without a doubt mad at than bout her house Told me to look around, more than you could try to count Every house on the block in a event the notice from the locusts, my battle instinct intense It read, "Your street needs to be moved to be to make it safe" In other words, they've been displaced and Put me on the case, a private eye, no time to I'm or die My motto, "Nowhere to run, nowhere to out the truth, or the world will find out"
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2] I'm hot on the trail, spotted betrayal intended to put the lot up for sale The block in to stop the shoplifting Now the plot thickens, shocked thinking about what I got in The meeting notes from a Who to take the city over, someone leaked their top secret document It read, "Dear We have to shut the soup kitchens down cause they enable and feed the And then went on to call the undesirable And planned to the benches out the park so they could keep it pure Also conspired to create security Assuredly the goal is to jail and police more A year later one of the patrol men beatin' On an old man who was sleepin' on the and almost killed him Got off 'cause his lawyer cost a million, but he got Nowhere to run, nowhere to out Tell the truth, or the world will out
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3] Marchin' the city street after Martin, sparking a Swisher Sweet Wish in Michigan we had a WikiLeaks Then it clicked like a Bic I need an for governor Rick Snyder Got us living in a state of emergency, financial Watch it slow motion like on cameras The is Dave Bing, thinks the city's his plaything Acts a fool to make this like it's Beijing Profits people but the people are the prophets Never getting heard by the people that's in Get to the bottom of it swallowing bottles of booze Tracing the money and the clues 'Cause the advance was by the foundation funding grants They don't believe me, they think I'm just on one of my drunken rants It's a prequel to a land grab but you can't Got nowhere to run, to hide out Tell the truth or the world find out
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