1] Was an day, sky was stormy very gray Then I got a call from Mary, sounded worried, me hurry, "On my away" Was my response, didn't wait for her to try and launch Into her explanation, walked up she was in her palms on the porch steps, all her belongings on the lawn I'm like Nancy Drew Dick Tracy, got a nasty crew, spit Rhythm addict cinematic like Scorsese Either adore or me but I do it for the babies and She was without a mad at more than bout her house me to look around, more evictions than you could try to count Every house on the block in a cataclysmic Read the notice from the locusts, my instinct intense It read, "Your street to be moved to be improved to make it safe" In other words, been displaced and privatized Put me on the case, a private eye, no time to I'm or die My motto, "Nowhere to run, nowhere to out Tell the truth, or the will find out"
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2] I'm hot on the trail, binoculars spotted intended to put the lot up for sale The block chipped in to stop the Now the plot thickens, shocked thinking about what I got in The notes from a conglomerate Who planned to the city over, someone leaked their top secret document It read, "Dear We have to shut the soup kitchens down they enable and feed the poor And went on to call the homeless undesirable And planned to the benches out the park so they could keep it pure conspired to create security patrols Assuredly the goal is to jail and them more A later one of the patrol men started beatin' On an old man who was sleepin' on the street and killed him Got off his lawyer cost a quarter million, but he got Nowhere to run, nowhere to out Tell the truth, or the will find out
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3] Marchin' the city named after Martin, sparking a Swisher Sweet Wish in Michigan we had a Detroit Then it like a Bic lighter I need an insider for governor Snyder Got us living in a state of emergency, managers 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 over people but the people are the prophets Never getting by the people that's in office Get to the bottom of it like bottles of booze Tracing the money and follow the 'Cause the advance was given by the foundation grants They don't believe me, they think I'm just on one of my drunken rants It's a prequel to a land but you can't have Got nowhere to run, nowhere to out Tell the or the world will find out
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