Lyrics American Reckoning.lrc Bon Jovi
[id: snfuzoxg]
[ar: Bon Jovi]
[al: 2020]
[ti: American Reckoning]
[length: 04:42]
[00:09.21]America’s on fire
[00:13.78]There’s protests in the street
[00:18.20]Her conscience has been looted
[00:21.85]And her soul is under siege
[00:26.95]Another mother’s cryin’
[00:31.25]As history repeats
[00:34.55]I can’t breathe
[00:38.30]
[00:44.78]Goddamn those eight long minutes
[00:48.22]Lying face-down in cuffs on the ground
[00:53.62]Bystanders pleaded for mercy
[00:57.13]As one cop shoved a kid in the crowd
[01:02.68]When did a judge and a jury
[01:06.83]Become a badge and a knee
[01:10.20]On these streets?
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[01:15.72]Stay alive, stay alive
[01:20.23]Shine a light, stay alive
[01:24.48]Use your voice and you remember me
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[01:31.87]American reckoning
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[01:38.25]I’ll never know what it’s like
[01:42.59]To walk a mile in his shoes
[01:47.23]And I’ll never have to have the talk
[01:51.47]So it don’t happen to you
[01:55.86]Three little words written ‘cross the chest
[01:59.15]Of a twelve-year-old who hasn’t lived life yet
[02:03.73]Am I next?
[02:07.95]Am I next?
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[02:13.64]Stay alive, stay alive
[02:18.11]Shine a light, stay alive
[02:22.36]Use your voice and you remember me
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[02:29.57]American reckoning
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[03:07.01]Is this a moment or movement?
[03:11.48]Is this the tide or a flood?
[03:16.05]Is our American reckoning
[03:20.21]Our story written in blood?
[03:23.43]Or in love?
[03:27.71]Or in peace?
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[03:42.47]Stay alive, stay alive
[03:47.09]Shine a light, stay alive
[03:51.19]Use your voice and you remember me
[03:55.72]
[04:00.29]Stay alive, stay alive
[04:04.62]Shine a light, stay alive
[04:09.13]Use your voice and you remember me
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[04:16.48]American reckoning
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[04:24.95]In our American reckoning
[04:27.60]Year of Release: 2020