New Song: "I Can't Breathe" (Patreon)

This is, unfortunately, about precisely what you think it's about.

It happened on the street,It happened in the park,It happened in daylight,It happened in the dark.It happened in the yard,In somebody's home,We wouldn't know it happenedAt all without a phone

The videos show it again and again,The beating and tortureAnd killing of menWhose crime was being blackIn front of white police,Whose last words are someVariation of “Please,

I can't breathe,I can't breathe,I can't breathe....

They’re told, keep it downThey’re told, show respect,They end up on the groundWith a knee on their neckThey’re walking, or shopping,Or staying inside,And all of that justifiedHomicide

I can't breathe....

Emmett till, tanisha anderson, ezell ford,Michael brown, dontre hamilton, so many moreEmantic fitzgerald bradford jr,Phillando castille, don’t you see what they're doin’ here,Trayvon martin, sandra bland, ronald Madison,Tamir rice, botham jean, we’re not close to done,John crawford the third, and Alton SterlingWalter scott, stephon clark, and Akai Gurley,Sean Bell, Eric Garner, and Kendra James,Walter Scott, Breonna Taylor, so many names,George Floyd, Ahmaud arbery, on and on,How many more lives’ll be *snap* gone? 

They tried being nice,They tried being calm,They tried through the system,Got spat upon,They were told they were doingTheir protests wrong,Is it any damn wonderIt went off like a bomb?

Now there's old men harrumphingWith their videos and tweets,There's people on the barricades,There’s fire in the streets,They've tried to find justice,And the justice said no,It’s clawing at their throatsAnd there's nowhere they can go

There’s a knee on their necksAnd their backs’ against the wall,Will they have to die For this system to fall?So much anger and hate, are we gonna waitTo hear their last gasp as they suffocate?

I can't breathe....