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Ferguson
01:45
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Hands up! Hands up!
Is this what we want? Is this who we are?
We're raising up a white flag
We light the fires on the shore
We didn't want to have to fight in a never ending war
We say "revolution"
You don't know what it means
You can try and spill our blood, but you'll never kill our dreams
With our hands up in the air
With our faces turning red
We've got to stand for something
We all bleed the same
You never cared to take our lives but you never knew our names
Hands up! Hands up!
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Baltimore
02:08
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We clear our throats to swallow a bitter pill
You act like children when faced with your guilt
Are we going too far? Should we call it off?
A hopelessness begins to fill our words and everyone agrees that it's only getting worse
The streets are extended gutters, a violation of man
We see prayers go up unanswered and pushed down again
Grayed streets cry out for color, washed out in red and blue
A chronic, systemic cycle of neglect and abuse
A hopelessness still fills our words and everyone agrees that it's still getting worse
The calls for nonviolence were answered with violence again
And those we mistook for angels were perversions of men
"The future has no future" is the wisdom of the age
And as long as the system grants power, then nothing will change
From ashes we pick up the pieces to build a little truth
You can't kill a movement. We'll rise up and build ourselves as proof
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Galveston
02:20
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Lights out!!
With a brick in our hands, our lives are changing
Our whole future goes up in flames
But it's better for lives to burn out in night skies
Than to have them stomped out and choked away
These streets, feeling powerless to rise up to a system that's failed
Banners that mean something else when the colors have run and meaning has failed
With a brick in our hands
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Oakland
01:50
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When cops are geared for war and they're marching through the streets
When kids die for oil in the blood-soaked desert heat
Wake up!
They've taken the truth and they've turned it on it's head
What hope do we have in a world where integrity is dead?
Hey! Hey!
Hope against hope even if hope is fading fast
Hey! Hey!
An idea can still change the world
An idea can still change the world.
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Cleveland Park
02:48
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When you've been knocked down, it all feels the same
Another child dies just for walking away
It's time we take side. It's time we do what's right
It's time to stand as one, in defiance
It's not an easy thing, when you get knocked down,
To get back up again with a boot across your throat
We have to take control, and throw off all our chains
Rise back to our feet by any means at all
They know the system has failed, but they don't give a fuck
Not while failed systems put money in the bank
We have to stand back up to reclaim what is ours
And fix a broken system by any means at all
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