Marco Polo - Drunken Sleuth Lyrics
[Verse 1]Was an ordinary day, sky was stormy very grayThen I got a call from Mary, sounded worried, told me hurry, "On my awayâ€Was my response, didn’t wait for her to even try and launchInto her explanation, walked up she was crying in her palmsSitting on the porch steps, all her belongings on the lawnI'm like Nancy Drew Dick Tracy, got a nasty crew, spit crazyRhythm addict that’s cinematic like ScorseseEither adore or hate me but I do it for the babies andShe was without a doubt mad at more than bout her houseTold me to look around, more evictions than you could try to countEvery house on the block in a cataclysmic eventRead the notice from the locusts, my battle instinct intenseIt read, “Your street needs to be moved to be improved to make it safeâ€In other words, they've been displaced and privatizedPut me on the case, a private eye, no time to wasteI’m ride or dieMy motto, “Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide outTell the truth, or the world will find outâ€[Hook] x2I’m the drunken sleuth, always on the hunt for truthMake the evidence ever clear, as a hundred proofA hundred proof[Verse 2]I’m hot on the trail, binoculars spotted betrayalSuperintendent intended to put the lot up for saleThe block chipped in to stop the shopliftingNow the plot thickens, shocked thinking about what I got in emailThe meeting notes from a conglomerateWho planned to take the city over, someone leaked their top secret documentIt read, “Dear conquistadorsWe have to shut the soup kitchens down cause they enable and feed the poorAnd then went on to call the homeless undesirableAnd planned to take the benches out the park so they could keep it pureAlso conspired to create security patrolsAssuredly the goal is to jail and police them moreA year later one of the patrol men started beatin’On an old man who was sleepin’ on the street and almost killed himGot off ‘cause his lawyer cost a quarter million, but he gotNowhere to run, nowhere to hide outTell the truth, or the world will find out[Hook] x2I’m the drunken sleuth, always on the hunt for truthMake the evidence ever clear, as a hundred proofA hundred proof[Verse 3]Marchin' the city street named after Martin, sparking a Swisher SweetWish in Michigan we had a Detroit WikiLeaksThen it clicked like a Bic lighterI need an insider for governor Rick SnyderGot us living in a state of emergency, financial managersWatch it slow motion like time-lapses on camerasThe mayor is Dave Bing, thinks the city’s his playthingActs a fool to make this capital like it’s BeijingProfits over people but the people are the prophetsNever getting heard by the people that’s in officeGet to the bottom of it like swallowing bottles of boozeTracing the money and follow the clues‘Cause the advance was given by the foundation funding grantsThey don’t believe me, they just think I’m just on one of my drunken rantsIt’s a prequel to a land grab but you can’t haveGot nowhere to run, nowhere to hide outTell the truth or the world will find out[Hook] x2I’m the drunken sleuth, always on the hunt for truthMake the evidence ever clear, as a hundred proofA hundred proof
