Leave The Cameras On

from Charmingly Awkward by Street to Nowhere

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Officer Officer Officer
Where you going with all that riot gear?
I see no broken windows
Do you have faith in those that sent you here?
Cause in a full bloom afternoon commute
The news crew beat you on to the scene
As we lay down in market street
Violent voiced and bleeding from the knees

They say we're wrong
So leave the cameras on
Leave the cameras on
And we'll see who's wrong

Officer Officer Officer
Did we get too close to union square
Is high class pride the tender line
Cause in the tenderloin you didn't seem to care
So it's prison bus after prison bus
To the warehouse docks to lock us all away
And the white clout in the white house
Will white out everything we try to say

I thought I saw myself on the split screen
Broadcast against the president's bombing
I think he needs a tap on the shoulder
I think we need to get a little bit bolder

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from Charmingly Awkward, released August 28, 2006

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