Drunken Sleuth Lyrics - Singles - Marco Polo

[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