Lyrics

Who’s The Pusher Now
©2012 Ellen Bukstel (co-writers Nick Annis & Brett Segal)

Back round 1935… Depression ridin high
People trying to have some fun… smokin’ dope and opium
Government did what they do best… makin’ a mess
Made a crime that’s victimless… criminalizing cannibus

And the big drug money machine… sells Oxy and Morphine
Legals Drug get us hooked… a million deaths overlooked
Methadone… Fentynal… Halcion… Phenopbarbitol
Let the government take a bow… Who’s the pusher now!

Follow the corporate money trail… while decent people rot in jail
Guarantee full occupancy… for private prison industry
Caught up in a livin’ hell.. with a couple a million prison cells
And government hypocracy… payin’ for modern slavery

And the big drug money machine… sells Oxy and Morphine
Federal laws still protect… drugs with deadly side affects
Percoset… Thorazine… Opiates… Amphetamine
Let the government take a bow… Who’s the pusher now!

War on drugs… a political joke… lockin’ us up for smoking dope
No reason for doing time… with a punishment …when there aint no crime

No cartels are runnin beer… prohibition made it clear
When you turn a market black… it’s hard to turn it back
When government gets behind the gun… IRS is never done
Our taxes pay the FDA… so the DEA can put us away

And the government drug money machine… runs like its on Dexadrine
Politicians legislate… so they can mass incarcerate
Look at the human cost… personal rights gettin tossed
Let the government take a bow… Who’s the pusher now!

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While the big drug money machine… Sells Oxy and Morphine
Cannibus guaranteed … harmless as a garden weed
When your body gives you pain….smoke some medical Maryjane
Let the government take a bow… Let the government take a bow
Who’s the pusher now!