Saving Face
(to the tune of "What's My Age Again" by Blink 182)
Recorded for public radio by Chance McClain
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I took a left - it was a yellow light
I passed a cop - flashing red, blue, and white
He tried to ticket me, but I refused to sign
Because the whole thing was a lie

He threw me to the ground and started beating me
No wonder no one trusts the H.P.D.
The biggest organized conspiracy
Denying their brutality, they're more concerned with saving face
Saving face for them
Saving face again

A quiet student - in suburbia
He turned around in - the cafeteria
He bumped a teacher there, who saw it differently
And claimed assault and battery

You know they tried to throw him in the T.D.C.
How can we trust our local I.S.D.
Where taxes go to pay attorneys' fees
Not educating you or me, except in ways of saving face
Saving face again
Saving face for them

I volunteer in, historic Freedmen's Town
Where streets are torn up, and houses tumble down
Another church is gone, and money is the word
While signed petitions go unheard

Evicting older residents without consent
No wonder no one trusts the government
The price of justice riding on your rent
No trace of how the money's spent, they're more concerned with saving face

Saving face for them, it's corporate welfare sold to us as charity
No wonder no one trusts authority
Why give our rights to certain powers that be 
Although we pay their annual salaries, they're more concerned with saving face
Saving face for them 
Saving face for them 
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Saving face again . . .