"Don't Cop Out" genre: Punk
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	Recorded in August 2001 by Kris Poulin; mastered and tracked by Doug Ward at Maximummac Studios.
	CD: Revolution is the Best Practical Joke to Pull on a Society That Has Become a Bad Bad Joke!   Label: self-released Credits: The Soul Rebel - vox, guitar; Carlos Desperdicio - drums, backing vox; Nick Banner - bass, backing vox
	Story Behind the Song A response to Kop Kulture. Based upon a grafitti'ed phrase in Paris during the May 1968 uprisings: "Inside each of us lies a sleeping cop; he must be killed." Amerikkka has become a nation of people whose inner policemen have awakened -- cop shows such as "NYPD Blue" and "Law and Order" and even "Cops", not to mention snitch shows such as "America's Most Wanted", lend a sinister fascistic subtext to society. We are sold a myth of the police as "good guys", while their true function in society is quite the opposite: we are all their potential targets, they are here to keep us in line. True freedom means an end to internalizing kop kulture. Lyrics Police are busting into lives again True entertainment through pain On TV and in our routines Victims and felons are all we can be Or pigeons for State stooges Whose slapstick maims and bruises Keystone Kops chased out of town Replaced by bloody sights and sounds CHORUS But if you want to commit homicide Start with the cop inside Don't cop out (3x) The highways of our repression Are paved with good intentions Black cops, brown cops, gay cops Where does it all stop? When you're beating your own kind Flushing history in your mind The union may up your pay But it won't wash the murder stains away CHORUS Rather than leave on a sour note Or tote the poverty of the vote Only world citizens united Can hope to turn the tide More videocams in our hands And other bold creative plans But without capital and State critique Any resistance remains weak CHORUS

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