Animal Kingdom

[Interlude]
"Welcome to Melbourne, ecstasy capital"
"The ugly reality of Melbourne after dark"
"Another night in Melbourne, another violent assault in the CBD"
"The shadow of gang land killings hangs over Melbourne once more tonight"
"Criminal steez and hustlers, for the long"
"Violent security video has captured some of Melbourne's most notorious underworld figures brawling at Crown casino. A court's been told the fight broke out as an alleged hit man was celebrating his birthday"
"Two young constables were raced to hospital, but they were dead on arrival. Both had been shot in the head with a shotgun"
"Crime after crime, drugs to extortion"

[Verse 1: Trem One]
Yeah
Ayo
The streets in my cityscape's littered with pigs
Another six-year-old kid's at the clinic with a needle stick
Junkie fucks jab veins in the back lanes
Pipes and ice turn a nice type to crack slave
A gat spray in a café in broad day
Coulda walked that hallway, but rap was my forté
A callin' of sorts that kept me on the real and narrow
Night times, writin' rhymes, days, wheelin' barrows
I kept my head above the risin' tide
And went when my best was sentenced to time inside
For dumb shit, pull guns to pull funds quick
A couple hunge ain't worth the twenty months my dun did
Eighteen spent in the pen with grown men
Stone killers and blue stone fences hold him in
The beast belly, with a thief celly and a cheap telly
Slept with a shiv, rigged and ready in the shitty beddy

[Chorus: Dontez]
Pigs, dogs, jacks, crooks and crumbs
Hammerheads creep the seabeds and seeds get shoved
Snakes hug the pavement and pups can drown
Pigs in cages, crabs in buckets of litigation
Animal Kingdom, every corner is contagious
The good with the bad, the instincts of nature
Blood on the dresser, knife in your hand
Are you the victim or the victor, the wolf or the lamb?

[Verse 2: Trem One]
Now, this
The land where they catch and kill their own, prone to shoot
No dispute, it's the home of atonement, too
Jacks for reach, cruel captains are pack-made
Ecstasy capital, renowned for our smack trades
Homeless zone in a chrome-fueled haze
All hope soon fades when there's no two ways
Out this system, kids watchin' mum on the nod again
Straight past the stop, hop the cut off to cop again
A copper van street-sweepin' for drunk youths
And drug mules are gettin' meat-cleavered in run throughs
My some boobs in a not-so-safe house
H'd out on the couch, 'stead of watchin' for stakeouts
Now I stay out, lookin' in for the most part
Peddled smoke and copped the odd unlawful assault charge
Saw some blow-hard lose a hand to loan sharks
But they ain't show you this side of the city on them postcards

[Chorus: Dontez]
Pigs, dogs, jacks, crooks and crumbs
Hammerheads creep the seabeds and seeds get shoved
Snakes hug the pavement and pups can drown
Pigs in cages, crabs in buckets of litigation
Animal Kingdom, every corner is contagious
The good with the bad, the instincts of nature
Blood on the dresser, knife in your hand
Are you the victim or the victor, the wolf or the lamb?

[Verse 3: Trem One]
Yeah
My other man did a stint in the can for the shit he ran
Interstate in a hired Mitsubishi van
It's desperate measures when the wife's preggers
But the family plans had the brakes put on 'em like pedders
Reticent to the end, "no comment" the code to follow
Pros and cons leave a martyr with no tomorrow
Borrowed time's got expiry dates
Vindicated with a choice of either wrought iron or fiery gates
High stakes, that's why these snakes slither
On the banks of the Yarra, stickin' unsuspectin' day trippers
Saints for sinners, rock, paper, pingers
Chicks clubbin', shovelin' their shnoz chock of paint stripper
This is Melbourne where the guns are drawn and
Knife fights and ice pipes just come as normal
As the wild thunderstorms and a Nylex clock face
Pyrex pots bake rocks top of hot plates

[Chorus: Dontez]
Pigs, dogs, jacks, crooks and crumbs
Hammerheads creep the seabeds and seeds get shoved
Snakes hug the pavement and pups can drown
Pigs in cages, crabs in buckets of litigation
Animal Kingdom, every corner is contagious
The good with the bad, the instincts of nature
Blood on the dresser, knife in your hand
Are you the victim or the victor, the wolf or the lamb?

[Outro]
"I know a child that's runnin' wild—
They got the whole—whole
Drug shit to a science—
The whole drug s—shit to a science—
I know a child that's runnin' wild—
They got the whole drug shit to a s—science—
They got the whole drug—drug—drug—
Whole drug shit to a—drug shit to a science"
"There was also shots fired with another weapon, probably his own service revolver"