Choke On Our Voices

[Verse 1]
They drew their lines across our backs
Red ink on the evening news
Smiles made of sharpened glass
Saying what we’ve got to lose
Mama’s worried
Kettle screams
Name tags on the armored men
Sirens sing through broken sleep
I can’t watch this again
[Chorus]
Choke on our Voises
Hear 'em breaking like a gun
We are the noise
That you taught us to become
You built this circus
Brick by brick on every tongue
Now you fear us
Choke on our voices till they're gone
[Verse 2]
They write our futures on a list
Who can breathe and who gets checked
Turn our neighbors into enemies
Tell us rage is disrespect
I see fathers in the cuffs
Kids abandoned
Staring stone
You keep calling this the answer
While you strip us to the bone
[Chorus]
Choke on our Voices
Hear it breaking like a gun
We are the noise
That you taught us to become
You built this circus
Brick by brick on every tongue
Now you fear us
Choke on our voices till they're gone
[Bridge]
You want us small
Eyes down
Heads low (heads low)
You sign our names
Then watch us choke (watch us choke)
But every wound
Is pleading for your fall
Every ghost you made
Is screaming in these halls (hey!)
[Chorus]
Choke on our Voices
Hear 'em breaking like a gun
We are the riot
That you taught us to become
You built this violence
Brick by brick on every tongue
Now you fear us
Choke on our silence
Choke on our silence
Choke on our silence till we’re done
[Outro]
[Feedback howl
Guitars clawing up the neck as vocal holds one last cracked note
Then cuts to amp buzz]

Rock, '90s Seattle grunge power ballad, male vocals:arpeggiated guitars+roomy drums verses, big chorus w/vocal doubles