Darryl "DJ" Jackson

Lyrics

Sirens paint the night, with a red and blue glow
City heartbeat heavy, feeling tensions grow
Cardboard signs rising, like a forest of pain
Every shout a story, every tear got a name

Standing on the corner, watching history breathe
Smoke in the skyline, broken glass in the streets
Anger like thunder, but the rain never falls
Just a million prayers, bouncing off the walls

I see the fire, and I’m praying for rain
I hear the cries; We are all the same
We don’t gotta break, just to say we exist
Together we are better, better than this

A young kid yelling, with a crack in his tone
An old man shaking, like he’s lost what he’s known
A mama gripping tight, to a picture in hand
Trying to make sense, of this crazy mad land

Media circles slowly, like vultures in the sky
Turning human lives, into numbers passing by
Even in the chaos, there’s a rhythm,…a beat
All our hearts crying, “we won’t accept defeat”

I see the fire, and I’m praying for rain
I hear the cries; We are all the same
We don’t gotta break, just to say we exist
Together we are better, better than this

For the ones who are lost, and the ones that are mad
For the ones who feel robbed, what little they had
I don’t know the answers, I just know what I see
People hurt and mad, and that’s not their destiny

Let’s rewrite the script, in the steps that we take
In the bridges we build, not the windows we break
We’re more than the lines, they draw in the street
More than the rage and the stomp of our feet

I see the fire, and I’m praying for rain
I hear the cries; We are all the same
We don’t gotta break, just to say we exist
Together we are better, better than this