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 America's on fire 
There's protests in the street 
Her conscience has been looted 
And her soul is under siege 
Another mother's crying 
As history repeats 
I can't breathe. 
God damn those eight long minutes 
Lying face-down in cuffs on the ground 
Bystanders pleaded for mercy 
As one cop shoved a kid in the crowd 
When did a judge and a jury 
Become a badge and a knee 
On these streets? 
Stay alive, stay alive 
Shine a light, stay alive 
Use your voice and you remember me 
American reckoning. 
I'll never know what it's like 
To walk a mile in his shoes 
And I'll never have to have the talk 
So it don't happen to you. 
Three little words written 'cross the chest 
Of a twelve-year-old who hasn't lived life yet 
'Am I next?' 'am I next?' 
Stay alive, stay alive 
Shine a light, stay alive 
Use your voice and you remember me 
American reckoning. 
Is this a moment or movement? 
Is this the tide or a flood? 
Is our american reckoning 
Our story written in blood? 
Or in love? 
Or in peace? 
Stay alive, stay alive 
Shine a light, stay alive 
Use your voice and you remember me. 
Stay alive, stay alive 
Shine a light, stay alive 
Use your voice and you remember me 
American reckoning 
In our american reckoning. 
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