Exploration Of Coercion In Everyday Life

(Album: Who Are Your Friends Gonna Be? - 2012)

In the space between a neighborhood and a street map
Between a battle fought and a ballot cast
Between our vacant hands and the things we lack
In the space between having nothing and everything
Between your tired bones and the empty buildings
Between this abandoned lot and a vegetable garden
There are people with guns who know how to use them
Nothing better to do than hop in their cruisers
And go crack the skulls of some dropouts and losers
And get congratulated on restraint when they do it
So if we can't blow up a social relationship, we also can't reason with bullets
So let's not be confused who uniforms and badged work for
It's not intelligence that keeps assholes rich
It's fucking armies of blue rolling with full clips
With handcuffs and clubs for anyone who's sick of going without just because they're poor
And in the space between who I am and who I should be
Between a tired loner and a community
Between where the van broke down and Alturas Street
And in the space between me and the neighbors out on the street
Between these walls that we pay to keep
And the ruins that this world deserves to be