Stray from the Path
Stray from the Path
Stray from the Path
Stray from the Path
Stray from the Path
Stray from the Path & Jesse Barnett
Stray from the Path
Stray from the Path
Stray from the Path
Stray from the Path
“III” is the second single from Stray from the Path’s eleventh studio album Euthanasia. As the title suggests, this song is the third part in a series of brazenly anti-police songs by the band, those being “Badge and a Bullet” and “Badge & a Bullet, Pt. II”.
The lyrics (in all three parts) focu...
[Intro]
(The police are people who) Kill
(Give help, each and every day
If you like to help people then join, the police is *bang bang* a-okay)
[Verse 1]
Part 3, 'cause fuck 1 2
How many courtrooms can these cowards walk right through?
In the land of opportunity
Where qualified immunity keeps a red dot locked on the community
Tell you to face up when your face is getting laced up
Shooting from the hip always aiming for the waist up
Untouchables can still get touched
Let 'em call for backup, 'cause therе's always more of us, run up
[Pre-Chorus]
So if the boot fits, you steppеd in the shit
It was always broken, there's nothing to fix
Fuck this
[Chorus]
Servants of the 187
Send another victim to heaven
Servants of the 187
(A badge and a bullet is a deadly weapon)
Servants of the 187
Send another victim to heaven
Servants of the 187
A badge and a bullet is a deadly weapon
[Verse 2]
Goddamn, now that's Americana
Slave catchers still cooking up drama
How these snakes stay emancipated
When that blue line's looking real gang related
Hold up
No knock, 32 shots, apartment's holed up
The cities burn like beacons, but the body count still goes up
And the riots only start when the storm troopers roll up
It's all about to blow up
[Bridge]
"You know what my job as a New York police officer is? When I put that shield on my chest?"
Kill, kill without question
You refuse to learn your lesson
Kill, kill because you can
But now you better fucking pray you got a body cam
[Breakdown]
We can run it back, bitch turn off the body cam
Killer cops get dropped
Killer cops get dropped
(Kill without question
You refuse to learn your lesson
Kill because you can
But now you better pray you got a body cam)
[Pre-Chorus]
So if the boot fits, you stepped in shit
It was always broken, there's nothing to fix
Fuck this
[Chorus]
Servants of the 187
Send another victim to heaven
Servants of the 187
(A badge and a bullet is a deadly weapon)
Servants of the 187
Send another victim to heaven
Servants of the 187
A badge and a bullet is a deadly weapon
[Outro]
Part 3, 'cause fuck 1 2
And if you fly that blue flag, then fuck you too
Part 3, 'cause fuck 1 2
And if you fly that blue flag, then fuck you too
(Goddamn, now that's Americana
Goddamn, now that's Americana
Goddamn, now that's Americana)
III was written by Drew York & Anthony Altamura & Craig Reynolds & Tom Williams & Will Putney.
III was produced by Will Putney.
Stray from the Path released III on Wed May 04 2022.