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Kill Count

from Mindless Attack 7" by Mindless Attack

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This song was written way back in 2007 during Mayor Street's last term in office. During that time the gun-death rate hit record breaking numbers. Every day the local papers were keeping track of the kill count by listing all the people who were shot and killed the night before. Things were getting so bad they were considering calling in the National Guard. The city started enforcing a curfew for kids under 18 (first time since the late 70's) and it was around this time that they came up with the Stop-And-Frisk laws. Most of the killings were gang and/or drug related but there were a lot of innocent bystanders. Young kids or people sitting at home watching TV would get hit from stray bullets coming through their walls. There were a bunch on instances where the police killed innocent people. In each case the police would claim they thought the person had a gun. The people killed by the police weren't added to the kill count. When it came time to find a new mayor the violence was a major topic for debate. I remember watching a debate for the democratic primary (the winner of which would become mayor. Philadelphia hasn't elected a republican mayor since the '40's) and when asked what they were going to do about all the violence the candidates went right down the line. The first guy said he would put 100 more cops on the street; the second guy said he would add 200 more cops, the third guy said 400 more cops. Nutter (who was elected mayor) said he would put 500 more cops on the street, and cameras in all the "trouble" sections of the city. The last guy said he would put 1,000 more cops on the street and everyone laughed at him. Apparently that wasn't cost efficient. The next day the headline of the paper was New Kill Count 400. It was only November. By the end of the year the kill count reached over 430 people, not including the people shot and killed by police. I sat down for lunch at my job, saw the paper, and wrote out these lyrics. It deals with the ignorance of the government, thinking that the police can cure the problem of violence mostly caused by extreme poverty, and talks about the reluctance to believe in a system that truly doesn't care about it's people.

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400 new kill count, another dead kid on the ground
another son died in the street 'cause of the systems ignorance
I don't want to die like this, shot full of holes from the police
gang violence is all around, they just shut the city down

it don't matter how hard you try when on the street is where you'll die
government lets it go on 'cause the poor ain't shit to them
just put more cops on the street, they'll bust the heads of the innocent
listen here son, watch your tone, when you live in a war zone

400 new kill count, another dead kid on the ground
another dead, another died, but no one else seems to ask why.
It's hard to put your faith in a system that don't give a shit
take more money from the poor, don't help out just lock your door

400 new kill count, another dead kid on the ground
I wonder if they'd give a shit if he was a son of the rich
then we'd see them get things done, then they'd think of the problem
maybe it's not the poor but the life we create that they can't afford

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from Mindless Attack 7", released February 1, 2013

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Formed in February of 2011. We play punk.

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