Nothing Is Fair Songtext
von Trevor Sensor

Saw something today that made me cry
Fifty years old, too young to die
Shot by a man who never reckons
Who decided to give him a gun
Drop a little something to make it seem right
With Wild Youth watching on the other side

I was told to believe in a country that is free
But ain′t nothing fair for you and me

Hey, Walter Scott, I'm singing to you
With eight bullets flying, well, what can you do?
How we fall for something called civil rights
Hey, Michael T. Slager, what gives you the right?
So I weep for the children under our red flag
Stained from the blood of nine body bags

I was told to believe in a country that is free
But ain′t nothing fair for you and me


I got a friend in the army who's hoping for more
While ten drunk rich kids sound the drums of war
And I'm so damn scared for my generation
Your minds so numb, their little patience
While in the fields, the innocent die
Shot by men who still have wives

I was told to believe in a country that is free
But ain′t nothing fair for you and me

Jeremy Quentin, I′m singing to you
Oh, I want America to listen to you
With their ears so deaf and my swallowed rage
You know this life they give is nothing but a cage
So I wrote this song for Walter Scott
'Cause I′m not a cherry who can be bought

I was told to believe in a country that is free
I was told to believe in a country that is free
But ain't nothing fair for you and me

Oh, no, no, no, no
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh, no, no, no, no