Woah

They’re closing down this town tonight

The hounds have been let loose

The streets are filled with fire

And the burning of old wounds

Folks are so damn tired

Of the same old front-page news

Listen to the storm outside

It’s tearing down the walls which have shaped your life

Woah

Listen to the storm outside

It’s gonna blow the shame away

My son please take care

When you’re walking through the streets

Ancient demons didn’t leave

Seems the scene is on repeat

Our suffering is meaningless

We’re stuck with this disease

I hate it but believe that they’re still hanging from the trees

The strange fruits are overripe like souls beyond the grid

Imagine what it means to send this message to your kids

I guess I really can’t

The second I pretend

I put a dagger through their chest

And feel like lying through my teeth

My fellow men

The only thing I can is to offer you my shoulder

And to promise that I care

And even if it takes just a splinter of that load

Or adds a glimmer to the coal

I want to mentally connect

I have the highest of respect for those who don’t fire back with hate

And inspire us with strength by fighting kind and with their heads

Like a lion on its back

Suppressed desire to attack

The entire world can see it‘s time to finally react

A silent scream shall flash and erupt the walls

That have shaped your life

People, It must be done

The columns shall break, but here is the clue

All lives don’t matter until black lives do

Listen to the storm outside

It’s tearing down the walls which have shaped your life

Woah

Listen to the storm outside

It’s gonna blow the shame away

And can you tell me

How many hearts must break?

And lives must it take?

Why does the colour of your skin

Decide who lives and dies?

Who gains and who’s denied?

My history’s steeped in sin

It’s steeped in sin

Its ugly face is here again

Woah

Woah

Listen to the storm outside (how many hearts must break?)

It’s tearing down the walls which have shaped your life

(And lives must it take?)

Woah

Listen to the storm outside

It’s gonna blow the shame away

(Why does the colour of your skin)

Listen to the storm outside (decide who lives and dies?)

It’s tearing down the walls which have shaped your life

(Who gains and who’s denied?)

Woah

Listen to the storm outside (my history’s steeped in sin)

It’s gonna blow the shame away