American Reckoning

Album: Bon Jovi: 2020 (2020)
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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 Writer/s: Jon Bon Jovi
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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