AMERICA LOVES SLAVES

[INTRO - AGGRESSIVE INDUSTRIAL] [Heavy distorted guitar riff, angular and brutal] [Synth bass pulsing underneath, mechanical and cold] [Drums hitting hard, relentless] [Electronic distortion and glitches] [16 bars of pure aggression] [VERSE 1 - SPOKEN, ACCUSATORY] [Over aggressive instrumental] America has 5% of the world's population And 25% of the world's prisoners 2.3 million people locked up Mostly Black and Brown Mostly poor Mostly convicted of non-violent offenses Private prison corporations make billions For every body in a cage CoreCivic, GEO Group, Management and Training Corporation Profiting off human suffering Building more cages Lobbying for longer sentences [PRE-CHORUS - BUILDING] [Guitars becoming more distorted] [Drums more aggressive] This isn't justice This is slavery This is genocide This is business [CHORUS - MAXIMUM AGGRESSION] [Everything hits at full force] AMERICA LOVES SLAVES WE JUST CHANGED THE WORD SLAVE TO PRISONER PLANTATION TO PRISON CHAINS TO SENTENCES THE SYSTEM NEVER ENDED AMERICA LOVES SLAVES [VERSE 2 - RAPID FIRE ACCUSATIONS] [Aggressive spoken delivery] CoreCivic makes 800 million dollars a year Off Black bodies in cages GEO Group makes 2.5 billion dollars Lobbying for harsher sentencing laws Private prisons are 8% of US prisons But they're growing They're expanding They're hungry Mandatory minimums Three strikes laws War on drugs Designed to fill prisons Designed to fill cages Designed to make money [VERSE 3 - THE NUMBERS] [Vocals intense, guitars chaotic] Black Americans are 13% of the population And 40% of the imprisoned Hispanic Americans are 18% of the population And 25% of the imprisoned White Americans commit the same crimes But receive lighter sentences But are imprisoned less This isn't criminal justice This is racial control This is modern slavery This is the new Jim Crow [BREAKDOWN - PURE SONIC ASSAULT] [Everything strips down except drums and bass] [Relentless, hypnotic] [30 bars of pure rage] SLAVES SLAVES SLAVES NEVER ENDED NEVER ENDED AMERICA LOVES SLAVES [VERSE 4 - THE SYSTEM] [Everything builds to maximum] They arrest you for poverty Charge you for bail you can't afford Assign you a public defender with 500 cases Pressure you to plead guilty Because you can't afford trial Because you can't afford freedom Prison labor: 17 cents an hour Making products corporations sell Making profit for the system Making slavery legal Making exploitation constitutional [VERSE 5 - THE LOBBY] [Screams and aggressive spoken word] Prison corporations lobby Congress To keep drugs illegal To expand sentencing To criminalize poverty To fill cages To make profit They don't care about crime They care about bodies They don't care about justice They care about money They don't care about people They care about quotas [VERSE 6 - THE REALITY] [Aggressive and uncompromising] two point three million people locked up Separated from families Subjected to violence Forced to work for pennies Denied healthcare Denied dignity And prison corporations make billions And politicians take donations And we call it justice And we call it law And it's genocide Slow and profitable [FINAL CHORUS - ABSOLUTELY MAXIMUM] [Everything at breaking point] [Multiple vocal layers screaming] AMERICA LOVES SLAVES WE JUST CHANGED THE WORD SLAVE TO PRISONER PLANTATION TO PRISON CHAINS TO SENTENCES MANDATORY MINIMUMS MASS INCARCERATION THE SYSTEM NEVER ENDED AMERICA LOVES SLAVES AMERICA LOVES SLAVES [OUTRO - RELENTLESS] [Everything cuts to silence] [Last lines screamed] two point three million people in cages That's more than were ever enslaved at one time 40% Black in a 13% population Locked up by design Not by crime The system is working Exactly as intended Slavery never ended We just changed the paperwork We just changed the words We just called it something else AMERICA LOVES SLAVES WE JUST CHANGED THE NAME PRISONERS INSTEAD OF SLAVES PRISONS INSTEAD OF PLANTATIONS [Everything cuts to silence] [Final guitar hit] [Done]