System of a Down: Prison Song Meaning

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Prison Song Lyrics

They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
Following the rights movement
You clamped on with your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids
Following the rights movement
You clamped on with your...

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   Soil6606

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   Jun 28th 2006, 01:45 report

   
   

   You stupid fucker.
   The lyrics flat out say it.
   Drug abusers/sellers are being put in prisons.
   When they should really be put in rehab.
   (all research and succesfull drug policy show that treatment should be increased***Rehab?***)
   (and law enforcement decreased while aboloshing manditory minimum sentences***Prison???***)

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Dec 27th 2012, 00:21 report

   
   

   I agree with everyone 100% But i have another theory of what it is also aiming at, its just an idea so no one freak out but when i hear the part
   "I buy my crack, i smack my bitch right here in holly wood"
   I get the impression that they also mean their are tons of celebrities doing drugs that aren't even secretive to the public and they never get sent to jail or are in jail for like a month if that and celebrities get all the help you could possibly get or none at all but are still pardoned for dong it. But as far as being an average citizen they generally get screwed on such things. that's just what i got out of it as well as everything else said above my idea.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Oct 7th 2008, 19:07 report

   
   

   This is the easiest song in the world to interpret because the lyrics say it straight up. The entire song is basically saying that instead of putting non-violent offenders in prison (specifically drug offenders in the case of this song) that they should be given treatment. Another issue is that drugs can be so easily bought and sold right here in America; "I buy my crack I smack my bitch right here in Hollywood!" Also, they are saying that the governments, not just ours but all over the world, are actually benefitting from drug money. I mean seriously, the lyrics "Utilising drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
   Drugs are now your global policy now you police the globe" and "Drug money is used to rig elections
   And train brutal corporate sponsored dictators
   Around the world" are right there! Their shouldn't even be a need for this song to be interpreted.

   
   
   
   

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   RideTheWings

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   May 21st 2008, 15:38 report

   
   

   This song is about the errors in law enforcement of drugs
   
   "Following the rights movement
   "You clamped on with your iron fists
   Drugs became conveniently
   Available for all the kids"
   
   When drugs became illegal
   They became available through drug dealers
   And they're easy to get
   
   "I buy my crack, I smack my bitch
   Right here in hollywood"
   
   The rich get drugs and if they were
   to get caught the punishments
   can be bought off
   
   "(nearly 2 million americans are
   Incarcerated in the prison system
   Prison system of the us)"
   
   example statistic of minor drug offenders
   filling prisons
   
   "They’re trying to build a prison
   They’re trying to build a prison
   They’re trying to build a prison
   (for you and me to live in)
   Another prison system
   Another prison system
   Another prison system
   (for you and me to live in)"
   
   They're trying to solve all of the
   drug (and possibly other) problems
   by throwing drug users/sellers
   in prison
   
   
   
   "Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
   You don’t even flinch
   All our taxes paying for your wars
   Against the new non-rich"
   
   All our tax dollars are going to fund
   prisons for minor drug offenders who
   shouldn't be in there but most people
   are ignorant/apathetic about it
   
   "All research and successful drug policy show
   That treatment should be increased"
   
   We should be putting drug offenders
   in rehab but we put them in jail
   
   "And law enforcement decreased
   While abolishing mandatory minimun sentences"
   
   Less taxpayer money goes towards law enforcement
   When minor drug offenders are not put in prison
   
   "Utilising drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
   Drugs are now your global policy now you police the globe"
   
   Since drugs are on the black market they can't
   be controlled by the US government so we have
   to stop it in other countries to stop it over here
   so now we "police the globe" (kinda like the war now)
   and it would probably be more easily controlled in our
   country if it wasn't illegal in the first place
   
   "Drug money is used to rig elections
   And train brutal corporate sponsored dictators
   Around the world"
   
   Since drugs are illegal it kind of has the prohibition
   effect. The money isn't going to taxes or the economy
   its going through the black market to the mob and
   dictators and creating organized crime

   
   
   
   

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   crackSmOkinAssDouche

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   Dec 28th 2006, 15:01 report

   
   

   its about how people using drugs need rehab and that a large percentage of them are repeat offenders because they never got real help......he says they need to get rid of mandatory minimum sentences because just sending them away to prison is NOT going to cure them and so they have to build more and more prisons because the people are addicted and keep doing the drugs so they are sent away again......sort of like an ongoing cycle

   
   
   
   

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   Jordan70

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   Dec 6th 2006, 19:49 report

   
   

   I agree with the post above it's about drug laws and corruption and how drug abusers should be put in rehab. I think more so it's about how the government makes drugs illegal and the CIA imports drugs so they can be sold on the black market for profit. This money is the government's "black budget", money that is untracked and they can use for secret wars around the world. Also, a lot of people don't know that prisoners work for corporations in prison. Company's pay prisons for cheap labor, which makes the government money, and keeps them from making drugs legal and helping people recover from addiction

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Dec 6th 2006, 16:40 report

   
   

   i agree with the dude from above...
   
   but also I think it means that the government is making deals with drug dealers to cut a share of their profit and making the sentances of the dealers lower. and the government is using that money to pay for secret wars around the world

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Apr 13th 2006, 08:00 report

   
   

   This song is about many things going on in America but overall I think this song is about america being turned into a huge prison "for you and me to live in" by all of the stupid laws and the corruption going on fuck the system live life to get high and get high to live life mutha fucker the "MAN" can suck my dick

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