Well, headlights kick the darkness of some back road of Alabama This time there'll be no news team No AP or UPI cameras Well, car door opens He's kicked to the ground No one's gonna hear those hideous sounds It's a long time waiting 'til the justice kicks in I wanna work for my wife and pray for my kids Leave this world a little better than I found Oh, in the cold ground Yes, legislation won't change hell's march in human hearts
It's been such a long time since I've seen the Spirit moving around these parts Now from the blood of Abel under the earth Crying to the Lord Every drop screaming worth There's a man in the field with a bullhorn and a sixth-grade education And he's feeding us all his twisted ideas of some kind of race relations He's got his finger on the trigger He's been known to use it He's got his boot in my gut Lord, I'm sweating bullets