American Reckoning

American Reckoning - Bon Jovi (邦·喬維)

Lyrics by：Jon Bon Jovi

Composed by：Jon Bon Jovi

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 d**n those 8 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