American Reckoning

America's on fire

Her conscience has been looted

And her soul is under siege

Another mother's crying

As history repeats

God damn those eight long minutes

Lying face down in cuffs on the ground

My standards pleaded for mercy as one cops

Shoved a kid in the crowd

When did the judge and jury

Become a badge and a knee on these streets

Stay alive stay alive shine a light

Stay alive use your voice and you remember me

American reckoning

I'll never know what it's like

To walk a mile in his shoes

And I'll never have to have the talk

So it don't happen to you

Three little words written 'cross the chest

Of a twelve year old who hasn't lived life yet

Am I next

Am I next

Stay alive stay alive shine a light

Stay alive use your voice and you remember me

American reckoning

Is this a moment or movement

Is this a tide or a flood

Is our american reckoning

Our story written in blood or in love

All in peace

Stay alive stay alive shine a light

Stay alive use your voice and you remember me

Stay alive stay alive shine a light

Stay alive use your voice and you remember me

In our american reckoning