Trust No Cop

A hundred years ago, they used to put on a white sheet
 And use bloodhounds against Negros
 Today they have taken off the white sheet
 And put on police uniforms
 They, uh, traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs
 And they're still doing the same thing
 Quite frankly, I'm exhausted from being angry all the time
 But I've found that it's hard not to be living
 With your eyes open wide
 Turns out that they weren't lying when they said
 That ignorance is bliss
 And just because these problems do not affect you
 Doesn't mean that they do not exist
 They're killing our boys for holding toy guns
 And kidnapping our students, murdering our loved ones
 Why don't you understand you can't face the cops against themselves?
 Why don't you understand that judge won't prosecute himself?
 And why don't you understand you can't fight the system with itself?
 And no rights were ever won
 Sitting quietly waiting for justice to come
 And if you are neutral and idle, you're feeding into the problem
 So don't turn the other cheek watching from the other side of a screen
 You are as powerful as you allow yourself to be
 We're all fighting the same war on different fronts
 Attacking the same system of oppression
 I know that it's easy to forget
 That there are less of them than us
 And it's about time for an uprising
 If we come together we can finally get shit done
 And I'm sick of seeing cops taking innocent lives
 I can't remember all their names and stories no matter how hard I try
 All I can see is bloodstained skin behind red and blue lights
 All I can see is bloodstained skin behind red and blue lights
 All I can see is bloodstained skin behind red and blue lights
 And no rights were ever won
 Sitting quietly waiting for justice to come
 And if you are neutral and idle, you're feeding into the problem
 So don't turn the other cheek watching from the other side of a screen
 You are as powerful as you allow yourself to be