[Intro – Sparse / Distant Sirens]
Cameras roll when it’s safe to stare.
They cut the sound when it starts to matter.
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[Verse 1]
Cameras roll when it’s safe to stare
Cut the tape when the truth gets bare
Headlines clean, but the streets still shake
They edit pain till it looks “in place”
They said she was a number
Just another name on the scroll
A morning that should’ve been ordinary
Turned to silence—stories told
Sirens echo through paper walls
Names get lost in footnotes small
They say “procedure,” “policy”
But policy don’t bleed like me
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[Pre-Chorus]
They call it order—we call it fear
When boots decide who belongs here
They try to paint it justified
But you can’t hear her voice in the soundbite
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[Chorus]
No mercy, no mic when the sirens fall
Just a press release and a closing call
They say “enforcement,” we say “survive”
When uniforms decide who gets to stay alive
The media blinks, then looks away
Counts the clicks, not the graves
If justice spoke with a human voice
It wouldn’t sound this cold and poised
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[Verse 2]
Families split by a midnight knock
Language barriers, ticking clocks
Hands up, hearts racing, prayers in breath
Every step feels close to death
They fire shots in the cold, then say
“Fear,” “defense,” “the book,” “the way”
But the book never learned how fear looks
And remorse moves slow when power cooks
Protests flare from city to city
Faces in the crowd know loss gets heavy
They don’t want war, they don’t want blame
They want a world that keeps every name
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[Pre-Chorus 2]
Say “bad apples,” “isolated”
Meanwhile the trauma’s duplicated
No clip long enough to curve the night
No headline sharp enough to set it right
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[Chorus – Lifted]
When the sirens fall and the flags stay quiet
Who’s left standing when the silence buys it?
They say “security,” we say “home”
You can’t cage a life and call it known
No mercy, no mic—just shields and noise
Bodies turned into talking points and coins
If truth mattered more than control
You’d hear the cries they keep off the roll
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[Bridge – Spoken / Half-Time]
I don’t hate the people in the street
I hate a system that treats lives cheap
I hate the math where profit decides
Whose tears are shown, whose get denied
If you’ve never felt that knock at night
Never tasted fear in fluorescent light
Don’t tell me calm, don’t tell me wait
Don’t tell me pain is up for debate
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[Final Chorus / Outro]
When the sirens fall, let the echoes stay
Not a hashtag, not a fadeaway
We remember names you won’t repeat
If justice means anything—no life’s disposable
Turn the cameras back on.
Tell the whole story.
Let the silence answer
For who it protected.
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