In the Shadows ft. Ed King Lyrics

Can’t breathe, can’t breathe, face pressed to the street

Gasping for air as if strung among the leaves

Come and see, come and see, children please hear his plea

Record each moment so the world takes heed

Sick to our stomachs, until we dry heave rage

Watching grown men call for mama as the life inside them wanes

“This isn’t who we are.” Wrong. This is exactly who we’ve been

A nation awash in multigenerational sins

If they can do this in broad daylight

Imagine everything they do in the shadows

If we do nothing while the world burns

We deserve the darkness that comes tomorrow

Don’t kneel, don’t yell. Air your grievances politely

Don’t fuss, all’s well, say the Samuel Seaburys

So comfortable in the skin in which they were born

Both their weapon and the armor shielding them from harm

They claim all’s fair, but they’d never trade places

Just return to the normal where they always come up aces

They’ve never stared down gas masks and rubber truncheons

Or faced “protectors” lusting for executions

If they can do this in broad daylight

Imagine everything they do in the shadows

If we do nothing while the world burns

We deserve the darkness that comes tomorrow

The relics of the past must come crashing down

Together we can change the world, starting with our own town

History can be written in the words of a single voice

Imagine when a million stand and make their choice

Why wonder what our children will think of us tomorrow

when we don’t know if they’ll live to see tonight?

And if they see tomorrow, will it only be time borrowed

Or will they finally see the end of the injustices we fight?

If they can do this in broad daylight

Imagine everything they do in the shadows

If we do nothing while the world burns

We deserve the darkness that comes tomorrow

If they can do this in broad daylight

Imagine everything they do in the shadows

If we do nothing while the world burns

We deserve the ashes that fall tomorrow