The Bigot's Way Lyrics

Was walking the main street lights

Holding my love with our hands held tight

Some local boys they got scared

‘Cause a love like ours ain’t the same as theirs

No worries we mean no harm

But rage it burns like a red hot iron

Pace quickened tryin’ to escape

With a baseball bat to the head I’d take

How you livin’ with this hatred

How can you see when your eyes are holdin’ closed

How’s your heart even beatin’ in this darkness

Lord how you even breathe it’s hard to say

When you live and die the bigot’s way

Some other main street at night

A young man feelin’ good livin’ his best life

These local kids asked his name

And what he’s doin’ up here and from where he came

He answered his nerves held in

But he knew this was nothin’ but the color of his skin

A circle they blocked him there

Then a fist to his belly and a vacant stare

How you livin’ with this hatred

How can you see when your eyes are holdin’ closed

How’s your heart even beatin’ in this darkness

Lord how you even breathe it’s hard to say

When you live and die the bigot’s way

My grandpa I could have sworn

Sent the Nazis runnin’ from the steps of Bastogne

But somehow they still live on

With the same flags waivin’ but a different gun

Gas chambers and mass tombs

Were once liberated by the Allied troops

Nobody seems to recall

Just took a mad man’s words to start it all

How you livin’ with this hatred

How can you see when your eyes are holding closed

How’s your heart even beatin’ in this darkness

Lord how you even breathe it’s hard to say

When you live and die the bigot’s way