Blood In The Graveyard

“How many times we gotta bleed

before they finally hear us breathe?

This city hums like a funeral hymn…

And we’re tired of dying in it.”

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Another mother on the screen cryin’,

Another headline: “young man dyin’.”

History loops, system rewinds,

But the truth gets drowned when the state stay lyin’.

Neon flickers on a cracked foundation —

Whole damn country built on desperation.

A badge ain’t holy if your heart ain’t human,

And justice ain’t real if it’s fear they’re consumin’.

We march but the streets stay stained,

Names on the mural but nothing changed.

Ghosts in the courthouse whisper pain —

And we pray somebody remembers their name.

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Ooh… the smoke turns silver in the moonlight.

Ooh… they call it justice, but it don’t feel right.

Sirens sing like a warning sign —

Run for your life; don’t cross that line.

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There’s blood on the badge,

Blood in the streets,

Ghosts in the system

That they swear is “clean.”

We built this graveyard, stone by stone —

Buried every promise we were ever told.

They say we’re free, but we ain’t free —

Not when the law don’t see us bleed.

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Politicians with their staged concern,

Light a candle, watch the country burn.

Talk “unity,” but they never learn —

’Cause peace ain’t profit, and they love a return.

There’s a sermon in the judge’s tone,

But his holy words got blood unknown.

Precinct shadows swallow truth whole —

When a badge gets to choose who gets to grow old.

Cameras on but the truth still fades,

Locked in a maze of red-tape graves.

“Calm down,” they say — “don’t misbehave.”

But we’re tired of dying just to be “brave.”

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I won’t sit quiet, won’t close my eyes,

Won’t let this world keep takin’ lives.

We rise, we rise, even when we’re tired —

Hope is fuel and the people are fire.

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(haunting chant)

Oh… oh…

Lay the truth down, strip the crown.

Oh… oh…

If the throne bleeds, let the walls fall down.

(spoken rap under it)

Hands up — they still shoot.

Speak truth — they call it “rude.”

We kneel — they call it hate…

But silence never saved the state.

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There’s blood on the badge,

Blood in the law,

And the ones in power

Still rewrite the flaws.

We built this graveyard, stone by stone —

But we rise together; we’re not alone.

They can chain our voices, but they can’t stop the drum —

The future is ours, and we’re takin’ it back —

One beat, one name, one scream, one breath.

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“Too many lost…

too many buried…

But we ain’t done.

We’re still rising.”