A badge, a pledge: to serve and to protect
A phrase that once held meaning when the job deserved respect
The law was once a solace for the just
Long ago when officers were people you could trust
But now it seems it's gotten to their heads
Their sirens and their flashing lights: these are what I dread
Because you never know if the man behind the lights
Is just as fucking crooked as the crime he claims he fights
Well that's it.

The boys in blue, defenders of our rights
Greedy fucking bullies that have got us in their sights
The length of your hair or the color of your skin
Is all they need to see to know just how much shit you're in
Some are on the take, the rest are simply dicks
Relishing the chance to make some citizen their bitch
Just to squeeze another dollar in their pockets, does it matter
While their heads and their asses and their pension's getting fatter?
Well that's it.

The man has raised an iron fist to beat us to the ground
Our reaction to injustice is to take it lying down?
Only if we oppose it is it ever gonna stop
'Til then beware, BEWARE, beware the crooked cop

Selectively enforcing the most trivial misdemeanors
While murderers and rapists run free
Petty drug offenses, traffic tickets, volume ordinances
These are your priority?
Incarcerate the criminals, bring honor to the system
That once cleaned our streets of all of its sleaze
And leave law-abiding citizens the right to drink our beer
And play our music just as loud as we please!

Seems law enforcement's purpose is to make our lives a hell
They will not rest 'til each of us are rotting in a cell
And if we don't oppose it, well it's never gonna stop
'Til then beware, BEWARE, beware the crooked cop

A flash of the badge is all you'll see
Before you're beaten senselessly
For not adhering to the norm
Laughing they will throw you in a cage
Where you'll sleep and shit and age
Until they say you've been reformed
Picking up the pieces of your brain
Coping if you're not insane
From their administrative pain
You try to get your life back on its track
But pigs won't cut you any slack
And so it all begins again

Corruption is becoming just a symbol of the shield
As cops abuse the power we've entrusted them to wield
Why aren't we opposing this? It's never gonna stop unless
We ram our boots straight up the ass of every fucking crooked cop
Take a stand, prove we're the Man and it ain't them anymore
Ensure that your defiant fist is used for what it's for
Perhaps we can oppose it, maybe it can be stopped
'Til then beware, BEWARE, beware the crooked cop

Awash in blissful ignorance, do we really think it's fine?
To this dear friends, a warning true: beware these crooked swine
And don't believe the old cliché, I know that pigs can fly
Above the law, while us below look up and curse the sky