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Lyrics for Crime For Crime by Ani Difranco:
| | | Artist: | Ani Difranco |
| | Album: | Not A Pretty Girl | | Track: | Crime For Crime | | | | Date Added: | 24/10/2007 | | Views: | 74 | | | | Lyrics: | the big day has come
the bell is sounding
i run my hands through my hair one last
time
outside the prison walls
the town is gathering
people are trading crime
for crime
everyone needs to see the prisoner
they need to make it even
easier
they see me as a symbol, and not a human being
that way they can kill me
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say it's not murder, it's a metaphor
we are killing off our own failure
and
starting clean
standing in the gallows
everyone turned my way
i hear a
voice ask me
if I've got any last words to say
and i'm looking out over the field of
familiar eyes
somewhere in a woman's arms a baby cries
i think guilt and
innocence
they are a matter of degree
what might be justice to you
might not be
justice to me
i went to far, i'm sorry
i guess now i'm going home
so let any
amongst you cast the first stone
now we've got all these complicated machines
so no
one person ever has to have blood on their hands
we've got complex organizations
and
if everyone just does their job
no one person has to understand
you might be
the wrong colour
you might be too poor
justice isn't something just anyone can
afford
you might not pull the trigger
you might be out in the car
and you might
get a lethal injection
'cause we take a metaphor that far
the big day has
come
the bell is sounding
i run my hands through my hair one last time
outside
the prison walls
the town has gathered
people are trading crime for crime
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people are trading crime for crime
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