(CHORUS) Legal murder, legal murder Doin thangs, doin thangs people never hearda Legal murder, legal murder Doin thangs, doin thangs people sometimes hear-a Murder, the end of another life By a drunk in a car, or a gun fight Now thats wrong but the bullsh**s right And day by day, we losin more babies lives Or take another son and send him to a war To operate a tank, held a chainese and drive a car And when he get knocked in the rocks A metal, no money and a God damn box Or his name on a local station What good is that when you're on vacation For good, you'll be missed in your hood Cause in Iraq, ya break ya back And still hafta pay for the gas when ya bring yo a** back Or come back disabled Your family looks at you to put food on your table Open the door, there's no food in the fridge So now you go crazy and jump yo a** off a bridge And the suburbs is heard of Its an example of a...legal murder (CHORUS) A white cop on a witness stand He panicked, shot a brother so they called him a dope man And the public has to take it Because the only thing we know is whats wrote in the paper Yo, but let it be the other way around Let it be the 'wood with his a** on the ground And then they wanna take action show affection Lay a brother on a table and inject him Or maybe spend the rest of his life in jail With the world the way it is, is there really a hell? But the pig hadda badge so society makes him right To take a brother to jail and beat his a** all night Or pull him over on the freeway And blow him away for the things he had to say And when they ask him why he shot a man without a weapon He'll just say he felt his life was threatened And the ghetto's is heard of Its an example of a...legal murder (CHORUS) Ya go to the doctor he prescribes ya morphine You used to be a patient but now you a dope fiend The women turnin tricks for rocks And the brotherman will take everything ya got Now I know I'm gettin deep But the message I kick is for the people from the street Now the doctor's a dopeman but he does it cla**y Insteada sellin on the corner he slangs from a practice But he's a family man, a doctor, an M.D So he's overlooked by society He'll just set another fiend on the loose Some pack a nine, some pack a duece duece And won't think about pullin that trigger quick Then bust a cap in yo grill to get the next hit Or break into a house and beat a lady down And won't remember when the high comes down While ya doctor's eatin shrimp and steak Ya gotta old lady dead and a brand new cell mate And the ghetto's is heard of Its an example of a..."example of a what?" legal murder (CHORUS) Legal murder legal murder...abortion Legal murder legal murder...suicide Legal murder, legal murder...the electric chair Legal murder, legal murder...child abuse Legal murder, legal murder...police brutality Legal murder, legal murder...D.W.I Legal murder, legal murder...pawn shops Legal murder, legal murder...pork chops (CHORUS) Legal murder, legal murder...world war Legal murder, legal murder...oh my Lord (CHORUS) Legal murder, legal murder Legal murder, legal murder Legal murder, legal murder Legal murder, legal murder Doin thangs, doin thangs, people always hear of