Ocean View
Rising Flames and Broken Chains: One Day as a Lion Unleashes Powerful Protest Poetry
Lyrics
Blood done been running down streets flood with beats
Blood has been flowing in the streets, filled with musical beats.
Pepper spray over cracked concrete
Pepper spray used on damaged concrete.
So vicious make a rich mans neck split
Violence so severe it can harm even wealthy individuals.
Underworld bout to wreck shit bet this
The criminal world is about to cause significant destruction.
Banks closed stomachs churning
Banks are closed, causing anxiety and unease.
Lines and rows cops blastin' out church windows
Police firing weapons from church windows in organized lines.
They heard word of two on a terror list
Reports of two individuals being identified as terrorists.
Hid in the pews just two city terrace kids
The two individuals hide in the church, originating from the city's terrace areas.
One held a piece just for peace of mind
One person carries a weapon for their own security.
The other was spittin' poems blowin' minds
The other person expresses powerful thoughts through poetry.
On the picket line
Engaged in protesting or demonstrating at a picket line.
Barricades lay cross made with bumpers and burning tires
Barricades made of car bumpers and burning tires.
And you could smell the exhaust
An intense smell of exhaust in the air.
And you could hear the kids screaming don't
Kids pleading not to be harmed or approached too closely.
Play us, too close
A choice between having a microphone or a weapon but not both.
You can have the mic or the heater but you can't hold both
And they were both...
-And they were both...
-Ocean of tears rise, rise a flame to tear them down
-Ocean of past crimes now fill our hearts to tear them down
-The water main's cut off panic hit the manor of the
-Mayor who's soft
-Word hit the streets that the cops got off
-They shook to rhythm of heaters that burned
-Like claps of thunder
-You turn to look at vengeance returned that shatter control
-After the whole shock of the news that a bomb hit the
-Bridge at broadway
-Gridlock full stop every exit way from Chavez to main
-Downtown was the same
-Every corner a flame with lines of people stripped of they clothes
-Freeze hold up your ID's their houses burned as they watched
-The colonel looked at his clock
-And they were all...
-And they were all...
-Oceans of tears rise, rise a flame to tear them down
-Ocean of past crimes now fill our hearts to tear them down
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