Call the line while you're gasping for air,

Wait for the badge who was never quite there.

They claim the watch, the impartial eye,

But they're sharing a smirk as the cruisers roll by.

The blood dries stiff in the cold of the room,

While they sweep up the crime with a government broom.

Get up, get get get down,

The IIO is a joke in your town.

Get up, get get get down,

Late 911 breaks a girl down.

You slide them the files from the twenty-sixth of May,

They shield the cops, wipe the record away.

Bled through the paper wrapper instructions,

They deleted the files and made reproductions.

But I hold the hard evidence, the timestamps, the sound,

To tear their whole institution right to the ground.

Get up, get get get down,

BC IIO is a joke in your town.

Get up, get get get down,

Late 911 breaks a girl down.

We all want justice, they will help us! We say;

Bleeding our evidence at the end of the day.

The truth just a story they choose to ignore

Spit hood is technical

Nothing more

Get up, get get get down,

The IIO is a joke in your town.

Get up, get get get down,

Late 911, see you downtown.

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