Prison Song by System Of A Down

Genre: Rock
Year: 2001

"Prison Song" is the opening track to System of a Downs 2001 album Toxicity. The song was released as an unofficial airplay-only single, and a promotional live video of the song was released. Written by Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian, the lyrics are about the United States prison industrial complex, the worlds largest. The song expresses the belief that the government is partially responsible for the spread of the use of illegal drugs and thus somewhat responsible for the fact that more than half of the inmates in American federal prisons are incarcerated for drug-related charges http://www.drugwarfacts.org/prison.htm. Though the song is mostly sung by lead vocalist, Tankian, a few lines preceding the chorus are sung by Malakian, who mocks, "I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch right here Read full article at wikipedia.org

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