Choke On Our Voices

They drew their lines across our backs

Red ink on the evening news

Smiles made of sharpened glass

Saying what we’ve got to lose

Mama’s worried

Kettle screams

Name tags on the armored men

Sirens sing through broken sleep

I can’t watch this again

Choke on our Voises

Hear 'em breaking like a gun

We are the noise

That you taught us to become

You built this circus

Brick by brick on every tongue

Now you fear us

Choke on our voices till they're gone

They write our futures on a list

Who can breathe and who gets checked

Turn our neighbors into enemies

Tell us rage is disrespect

I see fathers in the cuffs

Kids abandoned

Staring stone

You keep calling this the answer

While you strip us to the bone

Choke on our Voices

Hear it breaking like a gun

We are the noise

That you taught us to become

You built this circus

Brick by brick on every tongue

Now you fear us

Choke on our voices till they're gone

You want us small

Eyes down

Heads low (heads low)

You sign our names

Then watch us choke (watch us choke)

But every wound

Is pleading for your fall

Every ghost you made

Is screaming in these halls (hey!)

Choke on our Voices

Hear 'em breaking like a gun

We are the riot

That you taught us to become

You built this violence

Brick by brick on every tongue

Now you fear us

Choke on our silence

Choke on our silence

Choke on our silence till we’re done

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Guitars clawing up the neck as vocal holds one last cracked note

Then cuts to amp buzz]