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If You've Got A Badge​(​Victory or Death)

from This Machine Eats Babies​(​demo) by Jax Dritwood

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If I don't drink myself to sleep, then I'll just drink myself to jail
Not sure if I'd prefer a ditch or another county cell
But either way it goes I'm waking up alone and that's just fine
But after a couple of fifths, robbing that bank seems like a good time
So if you got a badge then you ain't no friend of mine
If I'm not singing on this corner it'll be a basement or bar
Screaming rants of freedom so hard until I'm seeing stars
But It's all just empty talk until the first molotov is thrown
So fight tear gas with vinegar and fight cops with fire
So if you got a badge then you ain't no friend of mine
But the ones like you and me get locked in a cage
While the white collars and suits, they just walk away
Because robbing a bank is called a federal crime
While robbing the poor is called taxes and fines
Is this freedom or a facade? I think the ladder fits best
'Cause the first is what I'm fighting for, It's Victory or Death
So have another kid so they can be indoctrinated by public schools
You call it an education, I call it brainwashing the kids of fools
So they can grow up to get shot in the back
By another cop with too big a head on his neck
Another death labeled not a crime
Now they're rioting in anehiem
If you got a badge, you ain't no friend of mine
Said you ain't no friend of mine

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from This Machine Eats Babies​(​demo), released January 30, 2013

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Anarchist vagabond guitar player/singer songwriter from New York.

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