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Jacked up in Oaktown

There's a war on the seventh floor
They got the Judge goin' door to door to door
I see a sea of brown eyes keeping score
Too many lost in jail cells to ignore
They throw me down and search me all around
Not a shred of evidence is found
Got nothin' on me you know I'm flat broke
So how they come up with a quarter pound of coke
JACKED UP IN OAKTOWN
JACKED UP IN OAKTOWN

CHORUS
Oh When the moon is high
I can hear my mama cry
Oh When the sun comes up
It's me she's thinkin' of
Oh When the moon is high
That's when my grandma cries
Oh when the sun comes up
It's me she's thinkin' of
JACKED UP IN OAKTOWN

In the mornin' wake up open eyed
How can I make the dollar to survive
I'm standing out in front of grandma's house
Just chillin chillin quiet like a mouse
I can see you coming down the street
And to think this ain't even your beat
Got My Buddy …. On the ground
Searchin' , askin' him am I around
A bloody lip the anger grows so deep
Tell me who should be taken off the streets
No matter how many times that you throw me down
I won't be yours 'til I'm part of the cold cold ground
JACKED UP IN OAKTOWN
JACKED UP IN OAKTOWN

CHORUS

My neighbor's child she's just nine years old
She only knows to do what she's been told
When she sees your car or you around
She runs and hides and doesn't make a sound
You know it's bad when she calls you the man
She saw you take her poor old uncle down
There's only one thing she has left to say
As piece by piece you take her life away
JACKED UP IN OAKTOWN
JACKED UP IN OAKTOWN

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