only if.

If I could say the right words to make your mind tick

The world wouldn't be an infectious virus that flows through your body

A tyrant that justifies what's acceptable, who's acceptable

I say fly little bird

That's only if you'd listen just for a second

I can twist your mind to force you to see that blood stain on the street from the man the cops beat

The news you tune out, missed it

Another robbery and a mother craddles her child who's no longer breathing

This toxic state that pulls morals apart

You say the weak can't fly

Only if that sheild you put up comes tumbling down when death is right at your doorstep

Pounding until the wall crumbles

The gunshots right outside but you turn up the volume on the televison

Little ones peak through the blinds, staring wide eyed

A couple on their honeymoon shot, the man gets away with a smirk

Children question death and yet you teach them it's a way of justice

Tell me, is justice served for the college students who passed when a classmate thought a shotgun was the answer?

Did that little boy have it coming for him when he was snatched from the playground

Body left in the woods to be discovered by hunters 

We are spoonfed these promises that the way of order will indeed get better

Now let me ask you this

While the innocent are killed off, why do you sit on your couch hazily believing in a false world

Meanwhile your child is being followed by a man with bad intentions

You don't look out the window to see him pull her into his truck

Fear struk in her eyes, screaming for her life

You only watch the news while a tear rolls off your face

You claim this is reason, fair

Only if you'd realize that this is no dream, but reality