I am floating away
into the overcast skies
over my home town
on election day
What is it about Birmingham ?
What is it about Buffalo ?
Did the hate filled want to build bunkers
in your beautiful red earth
they want to build them in our shiny white snow
and now (i've drawn close(d)) the curtains
in this little booth where the truth has no place
to stand
and I am feeling
oh so powerless
in this stupid booth
with this useless little lever in my hand
and outside
my city is bracing
for the next killing thing
waiting by the bridge
and praying for the next Doctor
Martin Luther King
It was just one shot
through the kitchen window
just one or two miles from here
if you fly like a crow
a bullet came to visit a doctor
in his one safe place
a bullet ensuring the right to life
whizzed past his kid and his wife
and knocked his glasses right off of his face
and the blood poured off the pulpit
yeah the blood poured down the picket lines
and the hatred was immediate, yeah
and the vengence was divine
so they went and stuffed god down the barrel of a gun
and after him they stuffed his only son
Hello Birmingham
it's Buffalo
I heard you had some trouble down there again
Just calling to let to know
someone understands
I was once escorted
through the doors
of a clinic
by a man
in a bulletproof vest
and no bombs
went off that day
so I am still around
and saying
Birmingham
I'm wishing you all of my best
Oh Birmingham
I'm wishing you all of my best
Oh Birmingham
I'm wishing you all of my best
on this
election
day