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[00:04.91]RANCID
[00:10.18]ARRESTED IN SHANGHAI
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[00:29.29]They assured me I was guilty but I commited no crim
[00:33.08]They said confessions bring lenience so they put me on the line
[00:38.06]So I protest the massacres at the Tiananmen Square
[00:42.60]My friends said yo, stay away man, you better not go fucking back there
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[00:58.59]They wouldn't let me write about my opinions about the state
[01:02.36]And freedom of expression they would never tolerate
[01:07.21]And the military secrets that I never did steal
[01:11.79]I didn't start no violence, and there was nobody that I killed
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[01:26.22]So I have a clear account of all the abuses of power
[01:30.98]And the memories of my homeland have now gone sour
[01:35.56]And I only got one weapon, its so plain for me to see
[01:40.38]My only weapon I call.. poetry
[01:51.02]And I don't even know why
[01:53.43]The truth seems like a lie
[01:58.38]In my cell there is no sky
[02:02.87]When I was arrested in Shanghai
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[02:10.20]Into wealth and priveledge, huh, I was not born
[02:13.95]But a devotion to freedom and liberty, I was sworn
[02:18.88]So every emotion is studdied, watched and controlled
[02:23.73]Who gets paid, who gets disciplined, who gets rolled
[02:28.27]
[02:29.54]A transmitter beams my coordinates anywhere on earth
[02:33.61]And radio waves, surveilance, satellite burst
[02:38.97]Open up your skull and let some knowledge come in
[02:43.69]Crack open the cranium and let awareness begin.......