Impunity


You walk around,
felling like you're above the law
Shielded by family immunity

Get disorderly when you paint the town,
brawling, hitting people in the jaw
Yet you're called a pillar of the community

You lack basic people skills,
heredity always handed everything to you
A silver spoon fed spoiled brat

Never had to pay your own bills,
you said that's what little people like us do
Society traps don't catch aristocratic rats

Tapped into the trust fund
when you turned twenty one
Such is the privileged life of a senator's son

Picked up three DUI's,
and a couple of solicitation violations
Even got caught with an unregistered gun

No charges ever stuck with you,
a Teflon man through and through
Parlayed your inheritance into racketeering too

But you don't care, you're ruthless like your pa ...
taking other people's money is what excites you 
Extorting at every opportunity 

You sneer at judges with impunity,
'cause you own more suits and uniforms colored blue
And you love being called Big Daddy's little outlaw
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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