Operation: M.O.V.E.

Philadelphia—'78

Shut down MOVE—by police state

Forty-five police storm Powelton Village

Government-sanctioned rape and pillage

Friendly fire kills officer dead

The MOVE nine are framed up instead

One dead cop—one officer's gun

(One) unjust system is yet undone

In spite of efforts dissipated

Until the movement was incinerated

May 13th—'85

Eleven people—burned alive

They dropped the bomb after liquid was doused

To smoke out the family and burn up the house

Sights trained on exits, the police wait

A firing squad for those who fight to escape

MOVE fought against exploitation

The state's injustice and their oppression

For these crimes that the city pigs created

The Africas were incinerated

Sentenced to be incinerated

Sentenced to be incinerated