A hundred years ago, they used to put on a white sheet
And use bloodhounds against Negros
Today they have taken off the white sheet
And put on police uniforms
They, uh, traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs
And they're still doing the same thing
Quite frankly, I'm exhausted from being angry all the time
But I've found that it's hard not to be living
With your eyes open wide
Turns out that they weren't lying when they said
That ignorance is bliss
And just because these problems do not affect you
Doesn't mean that they do not exist
They're killing our boys for holding toy guns
And kidnapping our students, murdering our loved ones
Why don't you understand you can't face the cops against themselves?
Why don't you understand that judge won't prosecute himself?
And why don't you understand you can't fight the system with itself?
And no rights were ever won
Sitting quietly waiting for justice to come
And if you are neutral and idle, you're feeding into the problem
So don't turn the other cheek watching from the other side of a screen
You are as powerful as you allow yourself to be
We're all fighting the same war on different fronts
Attacking the same system of oppression
I know that it's easy to forget
That there are less of them than us
And it's about time for an uprising
If we come together we can finally get shit done
And I'm sick of seeing cops taking innocent lives
I can't remember all their names and stories no matter how hard I try
All I can see is bloodstained skin behind red and blue lights
All I can see is bloodstained skin behind red and blue lights
All I can see is bloodstained skin behind red and blue lights
And no rights were ever won
Sitting quietly waiting for justice to come
And if you are neutral and idle, you're feeding into the problem
So don't turn the other cheek watching from the other side of a screen
You are as powerful as you allow yourself to be