Name: Three Strikes
Channel: lyrics: T. Welch, music: T.Welch, RUR
Description: "Three Strikes" is a song by Raised Under Reagan.

Three Strikes

Raised Under Reagan

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Raised Under Reagan

Socio-political punk rock with influences ranging from melodic punk, hardcore, thrash, metal, and folk music

Raised Under Reagan is a socio-political punk band based out of Long Beach, CA. In the past they have shared the stage with acts such as Dillinger Four, The Lawrence Arms, 1208, Western Waste, Piebald, and The Arrivals. They were also one of four local bands selected to play the Ernie Ball Local Heroes stage at the 2002 Warped Tour in Colorado (where they used to live).

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Punk

Charts

#30,684 today Peak #277

#2,849 in subgenre Peak #21

Author

lyrics: T. Welch, music: T.Welch, RUR

Rights

2004

Uploaded

July 04, 2004

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MP3 0.5 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Lyrics

Crime and government display a symbiotic love
With every politician’s promise to throw down the gloves
As prison building keeps our economy afloat
He’ll kill as many black men as it takes to earn your vote

The demagogues pay lip service with false promises and lies
They claim to sympathize as they pull the wool over your eyes
And the Umpire calls “1...2...3 strikes, you’re out!”
In the penal labor camps you’ll find what justice is about
The slave trade is back again

The Drug War: Prohibition’s next of kin
Full of all of the injustice Nancy Reagan could cram in
Yuppies snorting coke but it’s not Wall Street they’ll attack
They send the cops off to the ghettos to round up all the blacks

Addiction is an illness not a crime
Rehabilitation’s for the rich, the poor do time
And it’s “1…2...3 strikes you’re out!”
You’re just another junkie that our nation’s better off without
It’s a war against the poor.

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