Versuri Hello Birmingham

 
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