Lirik Lagu American Reckoning - Bon Jovi

American Reckoning

America’s on fire
There’s protests in the street
Her conscience has been looted
And her soul is under?siege
Another?mother’s crying, as?history repeats
I can’t breathe

God damn those?8 long minutes
Lying face down in cuffs on the ground
Bystanders?pleaded?for?mercy
As one, cop?shoved a kid?in the crowd
When did a judge and a jury
Become a badge and a knee
On these streets?

Stay alive, stay alive
Shine a light, stay alive
Use your voice and you remember me
American reckoning

I’ll never know what it’s like
To walk a mile in his shoes
And I’ll never have to have the talk
So it don’t happen to you
Three little words written ‘cross the chest
Of a twelve year old who hasn’t lived life yet
“ Am I next? Am I next?”

Stay alive, stay alive
Shine a light, stay alive
Use your voice and you remember me
American reckoning

Is this a moment or movement?
Is this the tide or a flood?
Is our American reckoning?
Our story written in blood
Or in love
Or in peace

Stay alive, stay alive
Shine a light, stay alive
Use your voice and you remember me

Stay alive, stay alive
Shine a light, stay alive
Use your voice and you remember me
American reckoning
In our American reckoning