Tytuł: Hello Birmingham

• Wykonawca: Ani Difranco
• Wyświetleń: 435

hold me down
  i am floating away
  into the overcast skies
  over my home town
  on election day
  
  what is it about birmingham?
  what is it about buffalo?
  did the hate filled wanna build bunkers
  in your beautiful red earth
  they want to build them
  in our shiny white snow
  
  now i've drawn closed the curtain
  in this little booth where the truth has no place
  to stand
  and i am feeling oh so powerless
  in this stupid booth with this useless
  little lever in my hand
  and outside my city is bracing
  for the next killing thing
  standing by the bridge and praying
  for the next doctor
  martin
  luther
  king
  
  it was just one shot
  through the kitchen window
  it was just two miles from here
  if you fly like a crow
  a bullet came to visit a doctor
  in his one safe place
  a bullet ensuring the right to life
  whizzed past his kid and his wife
  and knocked his glasses
  right off of his face
  
  and the blood poured off the pulpit
  yeah the blood poured down the picket lines
  yeah, the hatred was immediate
  and the vengence was divine
  so they went and stuffed god
  down the barrel of a gun
  and after him
  they stuffed his only son
  
  hello birmingham
  it's buffalo
  i heard you had some trouble
  down there again
  and i'm just calling to let to know
  that someone understands
  
  i was once escorted
  through the doors of a clinic
  by a man in a bulletproof vest
  and no bombs went off that day
  so i am still here to say
  birmingham
  i'm wishing you all of my best
  oh birmingham
  i'm wishing you all of my best
  oh birmingham
  i'm wishing you all of my best
  on this election day