Keep It In The Family

Album: Persistence of Time (1990)
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  • Mankind
    The public enemy's not the man who speaks his mind
    The public enemy's the man that goes and acts blind
    Searching for an answer that he'll never find
    An action from reaction and you can't make a retraction
    Once you've put your head out
    And then you're blue in the face as you try to state your case
    You can think with your dick but it can't shout

    Yo, I try to understand what the Hell is going on
    I can't imagine how things ever got so far gone
    You separatists say you want your own state
    I'll give them a state, a state of unconsciousness
    Retribution, no solution, constitution
    Discrimination through the nation
    Raining hatred
    I yell
    When there's schism, you must rebel
    I yell, so you'll hear
    I yell, I refuse to live in your Hell
    I am what you fear
    I'm the truth
    I don't keep it in the family
    Live your life, take someone else
    Keep it in the family
    The real world's outside your door
    You can't keep it in the family
    You've got the longest way to fall

    Keep it in the, keep it in the
    Keep it in the family

    Don't even try to tell me what you think is right
    When to you blacks are niggers and Jews are kikes
    And you expect to be taken seriously
    But your actions, they're more than curiously juvenile
    You emulate what you hate
    And you don't even know why you feel this way
    Cause daddy hated this, and mommy hated that
    And your own ability to reason's like a tire gone flat

    Yo, I try to understand what the Hell is going on
    I can't imagine how things ever got so far gone
    You separatists say you want your own state
    I'll give them a state, a state of unconsciousness
    Retribution, no solution, constitution
    Discrimination through the nation
    Raining hatred
    I yell
    When there's schism, you must rebel
    I yell, so you'll hear
    I yell, I refuse to live in your Hell
    I am what you fear
    I'm the truth
    I don't keep it in the family
    Live your life, take someone else
    Keep it in the family
    The real world's outside your door
    You can't keep it in the family
    You've got the longest way to fall

    When you keep it in the
    When you keep it in the
    When you keep it in the family
    When you keep it in the
    When you keep it in the
    When you keep it in the family

    Acting out of pure cold hatred
    'Cause of what another's race is
    Color of another's face is
    Different and your own frustrations
    Taking on a violent nature
    Full of hate, so full of hate
    You'd kill a man, is that your fate?
    Your street becomes a police state
    Why the Hell do you hate?
    Hate (One), hate (Two), hate (Three) , hate (Four), hate (Five)
    Hate (Six), hate (Seven), hate (Eight), hate (Nine)

    I'm not gonna stand for it
    Someone's gonna pay for it
    I yell, we rebel

    We're the truth and
    We don't keep it in the family
    Live your life, take someone else
    Keep it in the family
    The real world's outside your door
    You can't keep it in the family
    You've got the longest way to fall
    Keep it in the family

    I'm the thing that you most fear
    I don't keep it in the family
    I'm the truth you won't hear
    Keep it in the family
    The real world's outside your door
    You can't keep it in the family
    You've got the longest way to fall

    Keep it in the family
    Keep it in the family
    Keep it in the family
    Keep it in the family Writer/s: CHARLIE L. BENANTE, DANIEL ALAN SPITZ, FRANK JOSEPH BELLO, JOSEPH A. BELLARDINI, SCOTT IAN ROSENFELD
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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