Stolen Life lyrics

CHORUS

Wake up in the morning go to work

Fire up the truck and drive to Sonoma

Hop on the forklift

Fill up the truck with ten thousand pounds of newspaper

Ten thousand pounds of racist, trash, and lies

Drive the truck back to Santa Rosa put the newspaper in the recycle

So the rich white man can print out the same batch of lies

Again and again and again and again and again and again and again

It's too bad the cops had to kill that man

But he had a broomstick and he was Asian

We know they're all samurai warriors

They're all kung fu masters

They're all just like Jackie Chan

It's too bad the cops had to restrain his wife

Cause she was a registered nurse and she tried to save his life

But that would go against rules and regulations

To just forget at 2 at night

We're so proud of our boys in blue

Cause they always do what's right

I saw Eileen today

I saw her children play in the courtyard

Lately it occurred to me

How does a mama tell her children their dad got killed by the police?

CHORUS

It's too bad the cops had to kill that kid

But someone called in a stolen walkman

The cops they chased him down but he refused to lie face on the ground

And he just walked away

The cop said, "This punk can't walk away in the all black night

so I had to shoot him in the back of the head

From fifty feet away

I had to kill him it was self defense

I was afraid he would circle back around and kill me."

I saw Corneleus speak today at the Hayward High

That other police stole his sons life away

Over a walkman that wasn't that much more than change

How does a father find justice for a son stolen away?

Stolen away

Stolen away

Stolen away

Stolen away

I don't want to hear your news cast anymore cause it's bullshit

I don't want to see your headlines anymore cause they're bullshit

I don't want to hear your press release anymore cause it's bullshit

I don't want to see your police report anymore cause it's bullshit