Corrupt cops, who're supposed to be protecting and
serving citizens not the interest of their henchman
Demonstrate against it, you'll be standing for a sentence or worse
face in the dirt when they're brandishing their weapons
Loaded 45's and a horrifying ride
tear gas and a flash while they're holding down their lines
Militarized, ready for war at a peace rally
Finger on the trigger a picture we gotta see, sadly
Gotta be badly disturbed to serve it like this
Rubber bullets and night sticks, wishing we'd be lifeless
Raising a tight fist up, high in the air
This for Martin, it's for Malcolm and the lives you won't spare until your
mind is aware of the value of human life
and the fact you originated in chasing slaves through the night
Bring truth to the light, you'll be painting a red canvas
catching bullets to the head the way they slayed Fred Hampton

Standing up to the Powers that be
It's time to act feet pounding the street
Pushing forward seeking equality, till we see
a badge and a gun, uncomfortably numb now
Rising up until we instigate a change
and ain't no way to liberate the pain
but still we're moving until justice is served to
A badge and a gun, Uncomfortably Numb now

Playing with fire in a nation divided
when the people stay defiant bringing flames to the tyrants
Spark the start of revolution, with our fate undecided
Another heartless execution in the wake of these sirens
No way to describe it, find a way to wake up the blind
You know it's time to take the reins when there's a cage on your mind
Escaping the bind, picking the locks and knocking the walls down
the system in which cops get off from laws which we're all bound
It's wrong on all accounts, how could you back murder
Should earn the reaction of Nat Turner with a black burner
Can't ask for fair then that push gets pushed back further
counteract your reactions is what we have to burden
The path uncertain with wind in the sails and will to change
got the president venting, enraged on his Twitter page
Make America greater than this hater and Reaganomics
overthrow the oppression, protesting until we take the office

Standing up to the Powers that be
It's time to act feet pounding the streets
Rising up until we instigate a change
Ain't no way to liberate the pain, but
Still we're moving until justice is witnessed
it's for the future, what we leave our kids with
Pushing forward seeking equality, till we see
a badge and a gun, Uncomfortably Numb now

Smell the blood as it runs in the street
they keep feeding us guns when we hunger for peace
Still marching, move in numbers confronting the beast
No more pardons, when bullets coming from the police
It's gotta cease
End it for the sake of the youth
No pretending we're progressing no escaping the truth
Face the brutality and these skewed fallacies, it's nothing new
Can't you see racism stems from the nation's roots
A strange fruit unforgotten by the poplar tree
generational pain sustained by a copper's knee
Planted to neck and chest, guess they forget we gotta breathe
Hard to believe they see reprieve, written in policy
Hypocrisy, from laws written to politicians
Unarmed victims all God's children in a flawed system
A call to fix it, got the vision to drown out the evil
stay persistent make them listen giving Power to the People

Power to the People

Pushing forward seeking equality till we see a badge and a gun
Uncomfortably Numb now