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Detainees

by Detainees

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oppossumshoe Found their CD in a shop in Kentucky and turned it on in the car, immediately loved the album and had to support the band by buying the digital album. Favorite track: Ferguson.
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1.
Ferguson 01:45
Hands up! Hands up! Is this what we want? Is this who we are? We're raising up a white flag We light the fires on the shore We didn't want to have to fight in a never ending war We say "revolution" You don't know what it means You can try and spill our blood, but you'll never kill our dreams With our hands up in the air With our faces turning red We've got to stand for something We all bleed the same You never cared to take our lives but you never knew our names Hands up! Hands up!
2.
Baltimore 02:08
We clear our throats to swallow a bitter pill You act like children when faced with your guilt Are we going too far? Should we call it off? A hopelessness begins to fill our words and everyone agrees that it's only getting worse The streets are extended gutters, a violation of man We see prayers go up unanswered and pushed down again Grayed streets cry out for color, washed out in red and blue A chronic, systemic cycle of neglect and abuse A hopelessness still fills our words and everyone agrees that it's still getting worse The calls for nonviolence were answered with violence again And those we mistook for angels were perversions of men "The future has no future" is the wisdom of the age And as long as the system grants power, then nothing will change From ashes we pick up the pieces to build a little truth You can't kill a movement. We'll rise up and build ourselves as proof
3.
Galveston 02:20
Lights out!! With a brick in our hands, our lives are changing Our whole future goes up in flames But it's better for lives to burn out in night skies Than to have them stomped out and choked away These streets, feeling powerless to rise up to a system that's failed Banners that mean something else when the colors have run and meaning has failed With a brick in our hands
4.
Oakland 01:50
When cops are geared for war and they're marching through the streets When kids die for oil in the blood-soaked desert heat Wake up! They've taken the truth and they've turned it on it's head What hope do we have in a world where integrity is dead? Hey! Hey! Hope against hope even if hope is fading fast Hey! Hey! An idea can still change the world An idea can still change the world.
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When you've been knocked down, it all feels the same Another child dies just for walking away It's time we take side. It's time we do what's right It's time to stand as one, in defiance It's not an easy thing, when you get knocked down, To get back up again with a boot across your throat We have to take control, and throw off all our chains Rise back to our feet by any means at all They know the system has failed, but they don't give a fuck Not while failed systems put money in the bank We have to stand back up to reclaim what is ours And fix a broken system by any means at all

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Our debut EP, featuring five songs about rising up against social injustice.

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released June 10, 2015

Written and performed by Detainees. Recorded and produced by Jason Groves at Sneak Attack Studios in Lexington, KY.

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