Lyrics Public Enemy

Public Enemy

Shut 'Em Down

I testified my mama cried

Black people died when the other man lied

See the TV, listen to me double trouble

I overhaul and I'm comin' from the lower level

I'm takin' tabs sho'nuff stuff to grab

Like shirts it hurts wit a neck to wreck

Took a poll 'cause our soul

Took a toll

From the education of a TV station

But look around

Hear go the sound of the wreckin' ball

Boom and pound when I shut 'em down

I shut 'em down

(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)

I shut 'em down

(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)

I shut 'em down

(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 what I use in the battle for the mind?

I hit it hard like it supposed

Pullin' no blows to the nose

Like uncle L said I'm rippin' up shows

Then what it is only 5 percent of the biz

I'm addin' woes that's how the way it goes

Then you think I rank never drank, point blank

I own loans suckers got me runnin' from the bank

Civil liberty I can't see to pay a fee

I never saw a way to pay a sap to read the law

Then become a victim of a lawyer

Don't know ya, never saw ya

Tape cued gettin' me sued

Playin' games wit' my head

What the judge said put me in the red

Got me thinkin' 'bout a trigger to the lead

No no my education mind say

Suckers gonna pay anyway

There gonna be a day

'Cause the troop they roll in

To posse up whole from the ground

Ready to go throw another round

Sick of the ride it's suicide

For the other side of town

When I find a way to shut 'em down

I shut 'em down

(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)

I shut 'em down

(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)

I shut 'em down

(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)

Who count the money in the neighborhood

But we spendin' money to no end lookin' for a friend

In a war to the core rippin' up the poor in the stores

Till they get a brother kickin' down doors

Then I figure I kick it bigger look 'em dead in the eye

And they wince defense is pressurized

They don't want it to be another racial attack

In disguise so give some money back

I like Nike but wait a minute

The neighborhood supports so put some money in it

Corporations owe they gotta give up the dough

To the town or else we gotta shut 'em down

I shut 'em down

(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)

I shut 'em down

(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)

I shut 'em down

(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)