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Supermax

from Save the Plant! by The Size Queens

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lyrics

SUPERMAX

We moved to a quiet street
With a nice stop light
After you lost your feet
And we stopped every time
Even when there was no train rumbling by

We moved to a tiny town
There was almost nothing
No one around
They finally moved a Supermax into our town
Are we safer now?
I think we’re safer now

And we grew up
Told not to smoke
Not to drink
Not to think
We grew up
Told not to runaway
Beware of the dangerous drug dealer at the end of the way

The first one’s free
Then a life of slavery
Oh, are we safer now?
Safer now thanks to those PSAs?

Now they’ve moved this Supermax in and we both got jobs
We can be each other’s eyes
Everyone has eyes
There’s always eyes watching everything

Oh, don’t bring no plastic gun
They’re more dangerous, dangerous than a real one
Oh, our neighborhood watch is out
If you’re going to wear a hoodie
It better be pastel
And you better act like a mouse

Oh are we safer today?
They told us to watch out for the drug dealer down the way
They told us not to drink and drive
We followed all of their rules

Now they finally moved a Supermax prison into our yard
The lights are always on
The fence is electrified
We can be each other's eyes
Everyone has eyes
We can see everything, everything

Oh, don’t bring no plastic gun
They’re more dangerous than a real one
Oh, don't put that plastic gun
Up to your head
We want to tuck you into bed

Oh, son, don't put that plastic gun
Up to your head
We just want to tuck you into bed
Oh son, I think we're safer now
Safer now, I think we're safer now
Oh

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from Save the Plant!, released March 20, 2014

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THE SIZE QUEENS 2005-2017
After 12 years, 8 records and 1 EP, the loose-knit group of artists and activists, musicians and poets quietly and amicably disbanded and the art rock experiment that was The Size Queens was completed.

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