A mother without conviction
her child should be it all
fettered to addiction
before she learned to crawl.

(As she finds her voice,
it should mean only joy)

Her lungs fill with a cry
But it takes on new meaning
when you know the reason why
America is screaming

To the student in the jail cell
the writing is on the wall
Once the answer is unquestioned
Obedience is all
Like so many sheep
they lead us to the stall
tell us vote on red or blue
because united we shall fall

When you know the reason why
It takes on new meaning
Take it up, the battle cry
America is screaming

To the man in the shelter line
unemployed is his name
his family he left behind
still give him the blame

When you know the reason why
It takes on new meaning
Take it up, and hear him cry
America is screaming...

I hear America Screaming

I like that.

Thanks - I read the Poem "I Hear America Singing" and "To the States" by Walt Whitman and I thought "I need to modernize that".....When I heard about the kid getting tazed at UFC it gave me a bridge between the story of two people I know.