Unrest (Rise Up)

Because you believe anyone that's Black or brown
Should comply with any command
Everywhere we see machine guns
In every policeman's hands
While they keep pretending not to hear the cries
Of I can't breathe
More extrajudicial executions
In the middle of the street
And we know they don't care who sees

Wake up
While you slept, the world changed
We've faced enough of your violence and your hate
Now come face the voices of the streets

A violent insurrection for a lost election
While the winning campaign
Only kept one promise
That nothing would fundamentally change
So the rich have kept on getting richer
The press tries to keep us enraged
Corporations take another trillion
All you get is a starvation wage
Making sure their shareholders get paid

Raise up every voice as one tonight
And raise up every fist into the sky
For every desperate tear a caged child had to cry
These streets will speak, these streets will speak

In a thousand voices for every life that's been taken away
We'll sing out all of their names
Oh, we will remember that promises were made
Ones we still have to keep
The revolution's still not complete
Until we've all known freedom

All these dreams of a better world
For which we're all yearning
Are so hard to believe in
While the world keeps burning
But if there's no justice, there can be no peace
Now these streets will speak, these streets will speak
And for Breonna lying in her bed fast asleep
These streets are gonna speak
These streets are ready to speak
Rise up together now and fight
Rise up with fists held to the sky
These streets will speak, these streets will speak