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I've got a pocket full of attitude to throw at any stranger
Now I'm blacker than callaloo and green don’t do me favours
Incredible daggers stab at decibels of danger
Now the power’s in peril I'm a rebel for the statements
Lifeline orators sharp as razors
Ain’t knife crime in the mind of liberators save us
Blame it on our roots we’re puppets
Without Brutus our troops restore republics
Ignore the suffering endure injustice
We draw short straws and their sure we love this
The hearts we trust with catch twenty-somethings
President forty four encore now what’s this?
One make a difference? Look at the resistance
Incidents distant and different in England
Positive imprints are gone in an instant
Bring it back my method of attack is thinking

Ciceros can't take on Caesars
Now it's all gone
Now it's all gone
Lesser evils are our leaders
Now it's all gone
Now it's all gone

Oh the times oh the manners it's hopelessly broke
And then forced down our throats til we choke on the hope
You can go for the gold but I hope that you don't
Leave me wholly alone with a vote and a rope and a quote from the dead
Led by the soldiers instead of our choices it's over our heads
I get sober to think things over and over and over and over again
I'm already dead yo shed no tears
I cried for your lies and then bled for your fears
A warning to all said so clear
By them forward thinking men who then led from the rear
And we're blessed to be here that is clear but we drop
Down to the levels of devils and gods
We rest and appear to be calmly on top
Til the bodies we built on are lost and forgot

Ciceros can't take on Caesars
Now it's all gone
Now it's all gone
Lesser evils are our leaders
Now it's all gone
Now it's all gone

And I'm back again
Strapped with them new acronyms
Like OMG LOL we are going to hell
You get locked
Mementos to momentum can't stop
They freed us then turned leaders it was going so well

How many monsters or bosses that took on consciousness
Honestly want to be sombre here
A summer solstice rise of opponents
All boasting quotes of those we’re supposed to fear
Follow the leader swallowing what they feed us
Proper propaganda mandibles of a heathen
Take my taxes take us all backwards
Middle finger spinning Britain on the axis

Ciceros can't take on Caesars
Now it's all gone
Now it's all gone
Lesser evils are our leaders
Now it's all gone
Now it's all gone

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from A Story All About How, released January 29, 2015
Written and performed by Ill Literate, Jonny Steele and Lacey.

Recorded and produced by Shaun Amos at The Dojo.

Mixed and mastered by Shaun Amos.

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Copyright 2015 The Scribes.

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