I decided to update my previous attempt at a protest song about what’s going on in Minnesota because of the recent, new murder at the hands of ICE Agents. Hopefully I won’t have to do another. Sigh.
🎵 Minnesota 🎵
(Verse 1)
Hey, the frost on the streets of Minneapolis,
Another brother fell in the cold January light.
They said he stood for peace in a city so anxious,
Now his name’s in the candle smoke burning through the night.
And we remember Renee and the tears that followed,
Echoes of footsteps marching down Hennepin Drive.
When the sirens scream and the heartache hollows,
How many more must fall before we’re alive?
(Chorus)
Two dead in Minnesota,
Two too many in the snow.
We shout out for justice,
While the cold winds still blow.
Two dead in Minnesota,
Why must the people pay?
How many names before we say
We won’t look the other way?
(Verse 2)
See the lines at the vigils grow longer,
And chants rise up where the sirens used to wail.
Two souls gone but the outrage grows stronger,
As we try to honor their lives without fail.
In the glare of streetlamps and protest fires,
Voices trembling like the winter air,
We stand because love never tires,
We stand because we care.
(Bridge)
When the law bends and the streets are aching,
And the calls for peace just seem unheard,
We’re singing for every life they’re taking,
Lift our words like a weightless bird.
(Chorus — repeat)
Two dead in Minnesota…
(Outro)
Oh Minnesota, rise from sorrow,
Let tomorrow be free, let justice follow.
