On The Hook

Intro E5 [Verse 1] A dead silver spoon with needles in his skin Rode a pale horse down from Afghanistan Tears in the suburbs ,mothers praying for their damned Death has crept into their zone of the promised land Bridge D5 But just before each plague The clearest prophecies Pandora's box in backwoods pharmacies Chorus E5 A contract to die F5 Prescription for a homicide G5 F5 A generation on the hook E5 F5 Addicted and commodified D5 G5 F5 E5 Prescription for a homicide [Verse 2] Narcotic economics for the miner's sons The seams went bust so long a-go with nowhere else to turn Strip mine the veins, drill the abscess dry Incentives for the architects of their genocide Bridge D5 We've seen this all before In a different shade The Dark Alliance shifts to the modern age Chorus E5 A contract to die F5 Prescription for a homicide G5 F5 A generation on the hook E5 F5 Addicted and commodified D5 G5 F5 Prescription for a homicide [....] E5 F5 Prescription for a homicide D5 G5 F5 They're never worth a second look E5 F5 Addicted and commodified D5 G5 F5 E5 Your prescription for a homicide Interlude F#5 A contract to die A contract to die A contract to die [Verse 4] A contract to die Die, die, die, die [Verse 5] Hippocratic hypocrites Breaking oaths and cashing checks Wrote an ocean's worth of ink Scripting a nation's disease [Verse 6] A systematic business plan To broker death, increase demand So flood the ghetto and starve the hills Kill them all with crack and pills Outro D5 Kill them all Kill them all