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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Strike Anywhere
Strike Anywhere
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Eric Warren Kane
Eric Warren Kane
Songwriter
Matthew Gregory Sherwood
Matthew Gregory Sherwood
Songwriter
Thomas Rosser Barnett
Thomas Rosser Barnett
Songwriter
Matthew Ryan Smith
Matthew Ryan Smith
Songwriter
Daniel Garth Petrie
Daniel Garth Petrie
Songwriter

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
When they broke down the door
Put their guns in the face of your wife and child
And as and they pinned you to the floor
Did you say, "Officer, I am not resisting you"?
[Verse 2]
American justice, American dream
Is this what the the other half means?
Half of all our lives dissolved in fear
Half of our rights, they disappear
Is our apathy so corrosive?
Where does the cycle start?
Hear the sirens screaming out in the distance
Hold your family close to your heart
[Verse 3]
American justice, American lies
A war of words that I despise
I wish the good cops, if they exist
The vey best
And a bullet for all the
[Verse 4]
Complications, injustice, deliberations, what's the deal?
They fake it, we break it, and take back what they steal
We could rise, black and white
Unbound and make them pay
Every tear, for every fear, defend our yesterdays
We could rise, black and white
And make them pay
For every tear, for every fear, defend our yesterdays
[Verse 5]
When they dropped the bomb on the building to kill a movement
Care where the rights of the murdered went
Police terror in the eyes of the children
Police terror in the streets of every town
Where's our freedom when the sun goes down
And will the houses that the landlords built keep out the bullet sound?
[Verse 6]
American justice, American lies
A racist prison
Anesthetized
I wish the good cops, if they exist
The vey best
And a bullet for all the
[Verse 7]
Complications, injustice, deliberations, what's the deal?
They fake it, we break it, and take back what they steal
We could rise, black and white
Unbound, make them pay
For every tear, for every fear, defend our yesterdays
We could rise, black and white
Make them pay
For every tear, for every fear, defend our yesterdays
[Verse 8]
So they broke down the door
Put their guns in the face of your wife and child
And as and they pinned you to the floor
Did you say, "Officer, I am not resisting you"?
[Verse 9]
American justice, American dream
Is this what the the other half means?
Half of all our lives dissolved in fear
Half of our rights, they disappear
Is our apathy so corrosive?
Where does the cycle start?
Hear the sirens screaming out in the distance
Hold your family close to your heart
[Verse 10]
American justice, American lies
War of words that I despise
I wish the good cops, if they exist
The vey best
And a bullet for all the
[Verse 11]
Complications, injustice, deliberations, what's the deal?
They fake it, we break it, and take back what they steal
We could rise, black and white
Unbound and make them pay
Every tear, for every fear, defend our yesterdays, go
We could rise, black and white
Make them pay
For every tear, every fear, defend our yesterdays
[Verse 12]
If we try
Yeah, we try
If we try
Yeah, we try
To defend
[Verse 13]
Together, together
Together, together
Defend our yesterdays, together, together
Defend our tomorrow, together, together
Defend our yesterdays, together, together
Defend our tomorrow, together, together
Written by: Daniel Garth Petrie, Eric Warren Kane, Matthew Gregory Sherwood, Matthew Ryan Smith, Thomas Rosser Barnett
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