Why There's So Much Crime

Song Description

This is fast & angry protest song with elements of old school punk & rockabilly, a la X, Green Day, & The Reverend Horton Heat. The lyrics concern the current war in Iraq, the recent flooding of New Orleans, & tries to show a connection between rising cri

Song Length 2:48 Genre Rock - Modern, Country - Rockabilly
Tempo Very Fast (171 And Up) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Outraged, Irate Subject War, Poverty
Similar Artists Green Day, The Stray Cats Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

We spam the missles into minarets
To make a desert that we could call peace.
We cuff our pants up so we don't get wet
& pray the rain don't break the levees.

& meanwhile every corner's got a gun or liquor store,
& pundits are complaining welfare fattens up the poor,
& you ask me why there's so much crime,
I wonder why there isn't more.
Come on.

We watch the news by satellite dish
& swallow every single paid-for lie,
Then say that Kanye's acting foolish
For saying what's on half the world's mind.

& New Orleans is sinking while we fight The Oil Wars,
& they drag their feet in DC while Katrina pounds the shores,
& you ask me why there's so much crime,
I wonder why there isn't more.
Come on.

We ship our young & penniless off
& cut tax for the richest top percent
Then we send 'em home all combat rated
& wondering where the living-wage jobs went.

& it's five feet high & rising while the poverty line soars,
& we horde supllies & MREs like junkies on a score,
& you ask me why there's so much crime,
I wonder why there isn't more.
Come on.

Lyrics Dan Jeremy brooks Music Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia
Producer The Brothers Brooks Performance Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia

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