1] Was an ordinary day, sky was stormy gray I got a call from Mary, sounded worried, told me hurry, "On my away" Was my response, didn't wait for her to try and launch Into her explanation, walked up she was crying in her Sitting on the steps, all her belongings on the lawn I'm Nancy Drew Dick Tracy, got a nasty crew, spit crazy Rhythm addict that's cinematic Scorsese Either adore or hate me but I do it for the and She was without a doubt mad at more than her house Told me to look around, more evictions you could try to count Every house on the in a cataclysmic event Read the from the locusts, my battle instinct intense It read, "Your street needs to be moved to be improved to 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, binoculars betrayal intended to put the lot up for sale The block chipped in to the shoplifting Now the plot thickens, thinking about what I got in email The meeting notes from a Who planned to take the city over, someone leaked their top document It read, "Dear We have to shut the soup kitchens cause they enable and feed the poor And then went on to call the homeless And planned to take the benches out the so they could keep it pure Also conspired to security patrols the goal is to jail and police them more A year one of the patrol men started beatin' On an old man who was sleepin' on the and almost killed him Got off 'cause his cost a quarter 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 named after Martin, sparking a Swisher Sweet in Michigan we had a Detroit WikiLeaks Then it clicked a Bic lighter I need an insider for governor Rick Got us living in a state of emergency, managers it slow motion like time-lapses on cameras The is Dave Bing, thinks the city's his plaything Acts a fool to make capital like it's Beijing Profits over but the people are the prophets Never getting by the people that's in office Get to the bottom of it like swallowing of booze the money and follow the clues 'Cause the advance was given by the foundation funding They don't believe me, just think I'm just on one of my drunken rants It's a prequel to a land grab but you have Got to run, nowhere to hide out Tell the truth or the will find out
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