Tear Gas Jenny - Sly deSilva

«Hey guys we’re in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle right now

I don’t know if you can hear me

But we have have police now advancing on protesters»

«Fuck!

Fuck!»

«Oh my gosh I’m running, I’m running!»

«How long do you Seattle and those few blocks look like this?»

«I don’t know, we could have the Summer of Love»

Tear gas

T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas (T-T)

It’s Jenny with the tear gas

T-tear gas, tear gas, tear gas

(We could have the Summer of Love)

(The use of force must be rare

It must be necessary and it must be proportional)

It’s Jenny with the tear gas

T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas

(We could have the Summer of Love)

«I am Captain Allen of the Seattle Police Department

I am now issuing a public safety order to disperse»

(Heh)

In Seattle where we redline zones

So there’s more Black Lives Matter signs than Black folks

Where the affluent liberals gon' tell you «Vote»

But the Democratic mayor keep her foot on your throat (Heh)

It’s Jenny Durkan that’s leadin' this fuckin' circus

Sold out the city, so that Bezos could purchase it

Accelerated gentrification

Forced you out your home so the rich transplants could take it

In a city where it always rains but you don’t need an umbrella

‘Less the cops got the bear mace pointed and ready to spray (Spray)

Flashbang grenades

Blast balls, the cops aim ‘em right at your face

This is every day (Every day!)

Pigs on parade

Circle the block, sirens, hoppin' out for the violence

Protect and serve?

Protect who?

Call it justice when they crush the poor under they boots

Meanwhile the cop that killed Charleena Lyles still ridin' ‘round the city

Two day suspension for equipment violation

Jason Anderson left his taser at home

Now Charleena’s four kids ain’t got no fuckin' Mom

People fed up and the precinct bricked up

Protests picked up so the police cliqued up

They block the exits, give the dispersal orders

When you trapped, kettled, can’t leave

They hit you with the…

Tear gas

T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas (T-T)

It’s Jenny with the tear gas

T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas

(We could have the Summer of Love)

Jenny Durkan is workin' the waterworks for the cameras

Sayin' all the right words, but is worthless with actions

Her, Ted Wheeler, Lori Lightfoot too

You know Democrats: all talk, no do

(We have a system built on systemic racism)

No kidding, Jenny, that system is YOU

All you know is the tear gas, baton and the boot

Protect the rich corporate interests that donated to you (Hah)

Vetoed a tax but the left the cops unfettered

Jenny, you make the sex offender mayor look better (Hahaha)

Shout out to Ed Murray

Jenny got the pedophile endorsement and now she run the city (Yeah)

A former US Attorney

Let the banks off the hook but gave activists five months solitary

Our first lesbian mayor (So progressive!)

Corporate careerist, using force to suppress protests

The type celebrate the Stonewall Riots

Then gas the gay district on the first day of Pride (Heh)

Jackboots on the rainbow crosswalks

Cap Hill covered in this chemical mixed fog

Street mural that say «Black Lives Matter»

Cops beat the protesters right on top of the letters

Every night for a week, all the scared little piggies

Teargassed the densest residential blocks in the city

It’s just collateral damage for them neighborhood cops

But Jenny only wanna talk about violence at CHOP

Well, let’s talk, those kids got shot

‘Cause of this dangerous situation created by your cops

Spent a week provoking violence then abandoned East Precinct

Made a whole neighborhood into a power vaccuum

Chief says it wasn’t her, and you say it wasn’t you

So who gave the order to make the precinct move?

‘Cause if it really wasn’t her, and it really wasn’t you

Then who’s really in control here Jenny?

Who?

Tear gas

T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas (T-T)

It’s Jenny with the tear gas

T-tear gas, tear gas, tear gas

(We could have the Summer of Love)

You murdered them kids, Jenny, that blood’s on you

You know CHOP was a setup by your boys in the blue

Terror and paranoia from the informants and spooks

Sowed seeds for the violence, don’t act surprised when they bloom

Law enforcement, your first resort and the second

Status quo, at all costs to be protected (Yeah)

Civil rights protests is met with weapons

While you on CNN talkin' ‘bout the next election

You can fool Chris Cuomo but you can’t fool the people

Grandstand ‘bout Trump for the East Coast liberals (Heh)

Say you wanna keep the Feds out your streets

But his goons act the same as Seattle police (Hmmm)

Authoritarian law and order, there’s more of it…

And now they got a taste for it…

‘Cause, funny thing about the tear gas

Once it’s out the canister, you can’t just put it back

Fascism dispersed, rogue police

Mike Solan’s pro’ly on the phone with Feds as we speak

And DHS been waitin' to bring the heat

So Mike got his boys instigatin' riots in the street

Now they can’t seem to answer 911

But got a small army guardin' the police union

They wanna scare, panic, make mo' danger

Puttin' fake terror threats on the police scanner (Group of the Proud Boys…)

Public safety’s a protection racket

While Lorenzo died they played riot gear dress-up

Face it Jenny, they just do what they like (heh)

You banned tear gas, they use it the next night

You’ve unleashed this beast you can’t control and you know it

Every time you get on TV and lie, you show it

When the council tries to pass a bill, you gots to veto it

‘Cause your puppetmasters make you dance a dance that they’ve chosen

Stuck between a rock and a hard place, it’s certain

This mayor can’t handle the moral leadership burden

The city hurtin', Trump got the Feds lurkin'

But Seattle’s biggest problem?

(Hm)

Jenny Durkan

Tear gas

T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas (T-T)

It’s Jenny with the tear gas

T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas

(We could have the Summer of Love)

(The right to challenge government when it’s wrong

Is our most fundamental constitutional right)

It’s Jenny with the tear gas

T-Tear gas, tear gas, tear gas

(We could have the Summer of Love)

«Disperse now!»

Hi, Jenny