They bulldozed over the memories To build apartments with amenities And left the low income families Broke on the outskirts of town Might be the change on the surface that bothers me Or the underlying lack of humanity Might be a little of everything But I can never quite pin it down
And I get pissed when people tell me "That's the way it is" As if that's all that they know how to say When you walk past do you even stop and ask Or have you learned to look the other way?
The devil's wearing a suit and tie Swearin' on the Bible, there's a twitch in his eye, I guess Every crook's got an alibi As long as they got money to blow 'Cause every last dollar goes to feed the machine So they can keep on selling the American dream While our TV dinners and Photoshopped screens Just keep on killing us slow
And I get pissed when people tell me "That's the way it is" Feels like that's all they know how to say And it's so sad to watch you give up the little power you have All because you'd rather look the other way
Headlines are bleedin' read With the name of a man that I've never met Cuffed on the street with a knee on his neck And tears spillin' out of his eyes Are we heartless or are we numb? Changin' the channel on the television And telling ourselves we're not the ones And refusing to apologize
And I get pissed when people tell me "That's the way it is" When there is so much more that we can say If you walked past knowing that breath might be his last Would you still have looked the other way?
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