Ani Difranco - Crime For Crime Lyrics

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Big day has come bell is sounding

I run my hands through my hair one last time

Outside the prison walls town is gathering

People are trading crime for crime

Everyone needs to see the prisoner they need to make it even easier

They see me as a symbol and not a human being

That way they can kill me say it's not murder it's a metaphor

We are killing off our own failure and starting clean

Standing at the gallows everyone turned my way

I hear a voice ask me if i've any last words to say

I'm looking out over the field of familiar eyes

And somewhere in a woman's arms the baby cries

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And i say guilt and innocence they are a matter of degree

What is justice to you might not be justice to me

I went too far i'm sorry i guess now i'm going home

So let he amongst you cast the first stone

Yeah now a days we have all kinds of complicated machines

So no one person ever has to have blood on their hands

We've complex organizations if everyone just does their job

No one person ever has to understand

Yeah you might be the wrong color yeah you might just be too poor

Justice isn't something just anyone can afford

Yeah you might not pull the trigger you might be out in the car

You might get a lethal injection 'cause we take metaphor that far

The big day has come and my bell is sounding

And i run my hands through my hair one last time

Outside the prison walls the town has gathered

People are trading crime for crime

People are trading crime for crime

People are still trading crime for crime yeah

People are still trading crime for crime

People are still trading crime for crime yeah

People are still trading crime for crime oh yeah

People are still trading crime for crime

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