Edmund Prettus Bridge

The richest 1% of this country owns half our country's wealth: 5 trillion dollars. You got 90% of the American public out there with little or no net worth. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you’re not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you, Buddy?

We saw ourselves with greater dreams

And learned we could not overcome our disease

Skies for spacious obsequious

From cradle to grave they deliver to us

And rip our hearts from our chest

Let's talk about hope

We need a little sympathy

I think about my country

Through the lens of history

Let’s talk about privilege

Impeding resolution

And one billion hearts entwined in revolution

But there's no substance

No exceptional design to see it through

Crusade against such ignorance

Like moths to a flame without hope or defense

Intemperate discord shepherds no reward

A traitorous few left to fall on their swords

And fight until their dying breath

Let's talk about hope

We need a little sympathy

I think about my country

Through the lens of history

Let's talk about privilege

Impeding resolution

And one billion hearts entwined in revolution

But there's no substance

No exceptional design to see it through

No deeper threat no higher cause

No greater pretext to renunciate the letter of the law

I'm every woman I'm every man

And I'm every non binary hominid in this free and open land

See us catch fire not for the faint

Hearts disconnected we cannot wait

This bitter wind will leave no trace

Young hearts in triumph we must erase

We must erase