American লিরিক্স

I took a stroll on a Saturday night It was the first spring of a new millennium The city was feverish Flush with Cold War successes And stock market excesses And I could feel it in the air I was at the very center Of a new civilization So I walked a little taller and I walked proud Because I'm an American Suddenly swept by a crowd They were chanting with one voice In protest of what they saw was wrong That's when the cops moved in And the hammer came down And I heard the thud Of nightsticks meeting skulls And I saw the blood in pools on the asphalt And I felt the outrage That swelled through the crowd But I stood my crowd Because I'm an American What would you do Would you hide behind your white skin While the men in blue Shoot innocents at random