Shut 'Em Down

(album: Rise Up - 2010)

[Interludes:]
[Male News Archors #1:] Breaking news story! Just bringing you up to date...
[Female News Archors #1:]... across the US, as the country's economy continues to plunge.
[Male News Archors #2:] Now some are so outraged... they are doing something about it!
[Female News Archors #1:] The Congress is proposing new taxes...
[Male News Archors #2:] Symbols remind you of the toll the ongoing wars are taking on our country!
[Female News Archors #1:] CEO's. [echoes] [beat starts]

[Tom Morello starts playing the guitar]

[Chorus 1: B-Real (Sen Dog)]
We shut 'em down! We shut 'em down! (shut 'em down!)
We shut 'em down! (shut 'em down!) Yeah, we shut 'em down!
We shut 'em down! We shut 'em down! (shut 'em down!)
We shut 'em down! (shut 'em down!) Yeah, we shut 'em down!

[Sen Dog:]
Something getting down from the motherfucking get go (get go!)
Hands around your neck and I'm refusing to let go! (I'm refusing to let go!)
I'm like a Down South crooked-ass police (crooked-ass police!)
Getting me some of everything. Down to your show biz! (down to your show biz!)
See? They got me straight going off, G! (straight going off, G!)
Going buck wild, swinging on a paparazzi! (swinging on the paparazzi!)
We not done! This shit ain't over! (this shit ain't over!)
Cause we're back with a nation of soldiers. (with a nation of soldiers!)
And we having it! We taking over, kid! (we taking over, kid!)
Coming through with the Cannabis potent shit! (Cannabis potent shit!)
I'm thinkin': "Oh, no! We rock the good show! " (we rock the good show!)
Hand over the mic' like Billy Boddy in a fist show. (like Billy Boddy in a fist show!)

[Chorus:]
(Bailouts, Wall Street, Cold Wars, Politicians, Quiet Tax)

[Chorus 2: B-Real {Sen Dog}]
(Bailouts!) Shut 'em down! (Wall Street!) Shut 'em down! {shut 'em down!}
Shut 'em down! {shut 'em down!} Yeah, we shut 'em down!
(Cold wars!) We shut 'em down! (Politicians!) We shut 'em down! {shut 'em down!}
(Quiet Tax!) Shut 'em down! {shut 'em down!} Yeah, we shut 'em down!

[B-Real:]
Going down the cross roads, feeling kinda lost no
Way to make it forsaken and taken for a lost soul!
I don't want your sympathy! I don't need your hand out!
Never had it planned out, just a cut your man out!
Wars on the newscast! Caught it on a news flash!
Heard about a new tax! What if I refuse that?
I don't want your promises! I don't need your bullshit!
I don't need you telling me the answers at the pulpit!
Setup for the meltdown! Hunted by the hellhounds!
Spiders got you spellbound! Get up if you fell down!
I don't hate your slick talk! I don't seek your point of view!
I'm the fucking thorn your side that keeps annoying you!

[Chorus 3: B-Real {Sen Dog}]
(Crooked cops!) We shut 'em down! (Drug Lords!) We shut 'em down! {shut 'em down!}
(Higher tax!) Shut 'em down! {shut 'em down!} Yeah, we shut 'em down!
(False media!) We shut 'em down! (A common enemy!) We shut 'em down! {shut 'em down!}
(Hypocrities!) We shut 'em down! {shut 'em down!} Yeah, we shut 'em down!

[24 seconds guitar solo by Tom Morello]

[Chorus 4: B-Real {Sen Dog}]
(Politicians!) We shut 'em down! (War criminals!) We shut 'em down! {shut 'em down!}
(This is a fixed show!) We shut 'em down! {shut 'em down!} Yeah, we shut 'em down!
(Corruptions!) We shut 'em down! (No surrender!) We shut 'em down! {shut 'em down!}
(By any means!) We shut 'em down! {shut 'em down!} Yeah, we shut 'em down!

[Chorus 1]

[Beat fades out]