Violent by Design (feat. Janey Starling)

You gotta lotta trust in thugs in uniform So who is it that you think that they protect you from? Who do you see when you see 'them'? Model-village citizen Just a slap on our wrists and we know it We breathe easy, sleep easy Our shock shows our distance Shows we've not been listening There to make us safe Keep us in our place Criminals must pay So do what they say Whose law? Whose order? Whose law? Whose order? Why address need when they can protect greed? The P.I.C.'s expanding! What kind of peace do they keep? I see no justice You think they make us safe? Are they a friendly face? Keep us all in our place Hey, it's a pretty nice place you got there! Oh, are they the good guys? Are they the nation's pride? Always on the right side The thin blue line is violent by design! Invented to protect property Value statues more than our bodies They humiliate and disbelieve They protect their own Just a domestic She had it coming Just a wrong'un in a just system Can't even deliver on its own outcomes They get access to the vulnerable There's rapists and killers in uniform! But why didn't she Call up the police? You take their advice? Do you stay home at night? We're more likely to die In our homes at the hands of a man we know Oh, are they the good guys? Are they the nation's pride? Always on the right side The thin blue line is violent by design! How many bad apples? Til' we look at the tree Pull at it's roots Confront our history? ACAB! They don't protect me!