Drunken Sleuth

[Verse 1] Was an ordinary day, sky was stormy very gray Then I got a call from Mary, sounded worried, told me hurry, "On my away” Was my response, didn’t wait for her to even try and launch Into her explanation, walked up she was crying in her palms Sitting on the porch steps, all her belongings on the lawn I'm like Nancy Drew Dick Tracy, got a nasty crew, spit crazy Rhythm addict that’s cinematic like Scorsese Either adore or hate me but I do it for the babies and She was without a doubt mad at more than bout her house Told me to look around, more evictions than you could try to count Every house on the block in a cataclysmic event Read the notice from the locusts, my battle instinct intense It read, “Your street needs to be moved to be improved to make it safe” In other words, they've been displaced and privatized Put me on the case, a private eye, no time to waste I’m ride or die My motto, “Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide out Tell the truth, or the world will find out” [Hook] x2 I’m the drunken sleuth, always on the hunt for truth Make the evidence ever clear, as a hundred proof A hundred proof [Verse 2] I’m hot on the trail, binoculars spotted betrayal Superintendent intended to put the lot up for sale The block chipped in to stop the shoplifting Now the plot thickens, shocked thinking about what I got in email The meeting notes from a conglomerate Who planned to take the city over, someone leaked their top secret document It read, “Dear conquistadors We have to shut the soup kitchens down cause they enable and feed the poor And then went on to call the homeless undesirable And planned to take the benches out the park so they could keep it pure Also conspired to create security patrols Assuredly the goal is to jail and police them more A year later one of the patrol men started beatin’ On an old man who was sleepin’ on the street and almost killed him Got off ‘cause his lawyer cost a quarter million, but he got Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide out Tell the truth, or the world will find out [Hook] x2 [Verse 3] Marchin' the city street named after Martin, sparking a Swisher Sweet Wish in Michigan we had a Detroit WikiLeaks Then it clicked like a Bic lighter I need an insider for governor Rick Snyder Got us living in a state of emergency, financial managers Watch it slow motion like time-lapses on cameras The mayor is Dave Bing, thinks the city’s his plaything Acts a fool to make this capital like it’s Beijing Profits over people but the people are the prophets Never getting heard by the people that’s in office Get to the bottom of it like swallowing bottles of booze Tracing the money and follow the clues ‘Cause the advance was given by the foundation funding grants They don’t believe me, they just think I’m just on one of my drunken rants It’s a prequel to a land grab but you can’t have Got nowhere to run, nowhere to hide out Tell the truth or the world will find out [Hook] x2