Strike Anywhere - Sunset On 32nd lyrics

When they broke down the door and put their guns in the face of your wife and child and as they pinned you to the floor did you say "officer, i am not resisting you. " ? American Justice american dream is this what ' the other half ' means half of 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 American Justice American Lies a war of words that I despise I wish the good cops If they exist the very best and a bullet for all the 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 for every tear, for every fear, defend our yesterdays when they dropped the bomb on the building to k** a MOVEment did they 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 American Justice American Lies a racist prison anaesthetized I wish the good cops If they exist the very best and a bullet for all the . . . so we try to defend together defend our yesterdays , defend our tomorrows together