One For Them Lyrics

One For Them lyrics

I could never be them
Though my blood is just as red
And we all grieve
our beloved
That end up just as dead
I can feel the anger
At the
old atrocities
But I know it's not the same
Knowing it wouldn't have
happened to me
And I'm no good with cheap sloganeering
About making
dreams come true
The answer is somewhere at the foot of the cross
However hard we've tried to make it untrue
I remember McDuffie and how I
had to stay home
Not understanding why because I also thought those cops
were wrong
Until later I caught myself laughing at my friends' racist
jokes
Me the adult white male, I finally grew up
And so the drugs
enslave with the laws that imprison
State sponsored plantations disguised
and hidden
And I don't want to fear a man anymore
But then when one
of them knocks at my door