They're trying to build a prison
They're trying to build a prison


Following the rights movement
You clamped on with your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently

Available for all the kids
Following the rights movement
You clamped on with your iron fists

Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids


I buy my crack, my smack, my (*##$ right here in hollywood

(nearly 2 million americans are

incarcerated in the prison system
prison system of the US)


They're trying to build a prison
They're trying to build a prison
They're trying to build a prison

(For you and me to live in!)
Another prison system
Another prison system

Another prison system
(For you and me!)


Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
you don't even flinch
all our taxes paying for your wars

against the new non-rich
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
you don't even flinch

all our taxes paying for your wars
against the new non-rich


I buy my crack, my smack, my (*##$ right here in hollywood

The percentage of americans in the prison system

prison system, has doubled since 1985

They're trying to build a prison

They're trying to build a prison
They're trying to build a prison
(For you and me to live in!)

Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system

For you and I, For you and I, For you and I.
They're trying to build a prison
They're trying to build a prison

They're trying to build a prison
For you and me
Oh baby, you and me.


All research and successful drug policy show
that treatment should be increased

And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing mandatory minimun sentences
All research and successful drug policy show

that treatment should be increased
And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing mandatory minimun sentences


Utilising drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
drugs are now your global policy now you police the globe


I buy my crack, my smack, my (*##$ right here in hollywood


Drug money is used to rig elections
and train brutal corporate sponsored dictators
around the world


They're trying to build a prison
They're trying to build a prison

They're trying to build a prison
they're trying to build a prison
(For you and me to live in!)
Another prison system
Another prison system

Another prison system
(For you and me!)
For you and I, for you and I, for you and I
For you and I
They're trying to build a prison

They're trying to build a prison
They're trying to build a prison
for you and me
oh baby, you and me