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This is also an old task Force song actually, but we never recorded it and only played it a few times live. Jack and Rachel swore it couldn't be sung because of the speed, and it is a mouthful to be true, but I like the song so we did it anyway even if it does sound like I'm saying, "Blahduhbluhduhblugabuduhduh" a couple of times. This is our typical anti-cop song. Because that's what punks do, talk shit on cops, it's not a stereotype if it's true. I wrote the lyrics and first riff for this song some years ago, after I got arrested in Rolla, MO for supposedly stealing chips and soda that I didn't actually steal (I had the receipt even), hence the first line of the song. My brother is a cop. Which puts me in an awkward standing with him. I like my brother just fine, I'm civil to him. But some part of me knows that he has to be a nuerotic motherfucker to want to impose his delusion of power on people, though what I've heard my brother sin't the worst of police. I understand that there are perhaps some people who want to be cops because they honestly believe they are providing a service to the community, which I respect. I just don't think most of them know what choosing that employment ultimately means, and the underlying reasons for it. Some people just wanna be cops to kick the shit outta people, which is also an unfortunate reality as well. What I find the most repulsive is the idea that many people trust cops as a higher authority and that beacause they wear a particular uniform and carry a gun that means they are responsible by default, which just isn't true, cops are people and some people are crazy assholes. More than that though the lyrics really explain the song fine so I'm done.

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Chips and fuckin' soda, I stole it?!
"You're receipt boy is just invalid"
Meet that precious quota or lose
All your funding to raid and abuse

What do you want from me?
I won't suck your dick to be free
I wanna turn my head and just run away from you
Why are you shining that light in my eyes?
Do I harnass a deranged criminal mind?
Or do you want me temporarilly blind
to boot stomp my face?
Or unload your mace
Into my face?
Will I be shot or be tased, I don't know!!

How many lives must be retired before your heinous abuse of power expires
Slap cuffs on in the mirror if you're looking for crime
How about you take a fuckin' beating and still pay your fine!
Swine!

Stop salting our wounds or you'll lay in ruin
No apathy for the masses anymore, we're pissed off not doomed
You just rely on what you're told and for you bloodeshed is gold
We'll ensure this economy will collapse, we won't be bought or be sold, fuck no!

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from Gran Mal, released May 11, 2012

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