De-fund the police?
De-fund the police?
Armed Robbery in progress!
What now?
Call a priest.
Armed Robbery in progress!
What now?
Call a priest.
De-fund the police?
De-fund the police?
Domestic violence in progress!
Ma'am when you ask him to stop,
Remember say please.
De-fund the police?
De-fund the police?
Someone stole my car!
Piano man rolls up
Playing Beethoven's Für Elise.
De-fund the police?
De-fund the police?
Someone's shot down,
But sanitation is coming
To clean the street.
Reform the police?
No! What's that tripe?
Safety is paramount.
Down with them pigs!
What's in your pipe?
Reform the police?
Come on, please!
America's burning
America's burning
Conflated injustice
Pervasive disease!
Reform the police?
But that cop with his knee -
Oh no, he was wrong
And I hear your plea -
How dare you agree!
De-fund the police!
De-fund the police?
But that's not what we mean.
Yet that is what you said?
Reform's what we need.
Lay down your weapons
Let the rhetoric wane
We all value our lives
So let's find common ground
And relieve the pain.
Listen here brother,
Can we stand arm in arm?
It's too brutal out there.
Too much policy wrong,
Too many tactics do harm.
There must be some way
To see eyes to eyes
And with sobered vision
Take the blindfold from Justice
Before another innocent dies.
One bad apple
Toppled that tree.
Seeded mistrust,
And poisoned the fruit
With enraged disease.
Hold back that hammer,
With your vengeance inflamed!
We need needle and thread
To sew up the flag
That adorns all our dead.
The blue wall of silence
Maims good intent
Gives cover to evil
Until the ghosts of ideals
Are fleetingly spent.
So much policy wrong
Feeds political plight,
With rank and file far afield
Having no clear recourse
Under cover of night.
I know that man.
He lives right next door.
Our kids play together
And we once had a picnic
Down by the shore.
Empower police!
Empower police?
A new vision enthrall
With accountability
And Justice for all.
Police and community
Should not stand alone
With this call to arms
Self-interest is clear
For peace in our homes.
Toppled that tree.
Seeded mistrust,
And poisoned the fruit
With enraged disease.
Hold back that hammer,
With your vengeance inflamed!
We need needle and thread
To sew up the flag
That adorns all our dead.
The blue wall of silence
Maims good intent
Gives cover to evil
Until the ghosts of ideals
Are fleetingly spent.
So much policy wrong
Feeds political plight,
With rank and file far afield
Having no clear recourse
Under cover of night.
I know that man.
He lives right next door.
Our kids play together
And we once had a picnic
Down by the shore.
Empower police!
Empower police?
A new vision enthrall
With accountability
And Justice for all.
Police and community
Should not stand alone
With this call to arms
Self-interest is clear
For peace in our homes.
De-fund the police?
No, no you're right.
Every life is so precious
And fleeting at once
Let us join in the light.
