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!