[(eh eh, oh oh ) [Verse 1] We had nothing, yet they took it all, We asked for nothing, but they answered with their haul, We held on to scraps, things worth no price, They looked at us as though our lives weren’t worth a slice. (eh eh, oh oh ) [male voice] [Chorus] Ohh, everything said we were the lowest of the low, To shut us down, the police landed their blows, Women wept for children beaten to the ground, Justice declared this fate was all we’d found, (This fate was all we’d found!) [Verse 2] [Street atmosphere] How to eat? How to quench a dry throat? To keep alive, we signed every desperate note, Loans imposed, mortgages, and worthless checks, We knew the path—straight into the wrecks. [Chorus] [male voice] [Orchestral elements] Ohh, everything said we were the lowest of the low, To shut us down, the police landed their blows, Women wept for children beaten to the ground, Justice declared this fate was all we’d found. [Bridge] [Slam] [Poetic tone] The laws kept stacking up to silence our cries, No, our dead received no last goodbyes, We were many, different, scattered wide, But politics called us all the same inside. ( eh eh, oh oh ) [Instrumental] [Outro] [Chanted outro] [March rhythm] [Tension build-up] gunshot “Bang bang”, the gangs! “Bang bang”, the breakers! “Bang bang”, the looters! “Bang bang”, the takers! “Bang bang”, the outcasts… “Bang bang”, Bang bang… Outcasts… but citizens… [gunshot] “That this is our fate, our death…” (eh eh, oh oh ) [Rhytm rap]
