Anywhere But Here - Have Nots

I can’t honestly say I’m making it tonight

But I’ll give you all that I got, I’ll give you everything despite

Cos' I’m not the one who’s pleading for my boy to come to life

Reality has taken me on this October night

Cos' there’s a man on the side of the road a sobbing shadow with a hunch

The people gather round' him for a photo-op

They pulled the curtain back and then a road to ruin settled in

Those eyes, in those eyes

He said let’s lets all stand and pray and play follow the f*cking leader and

escape

This grim reality see

Just follow what I’m teaching and you’ll see that true salvation

Lies today, in a blood streak, in a blood streak on the street

Well who knows what the kid could have been we’re paying you so get up there

and play

To all the kids deceived, guess there ain’t' no grieving needed

On this Halloween, anywhere but here I’d rather be

You’ve been so welcoming to me

But I don’t agree, with anything I see

Cos' the fathers falling to his knees as you rejoice in harmony

Man anywhere but here I’d rather be

The jackals were all there in the warm October air before

They put the chalk line down on the cement

When the church bells started tolling they said keep those cameras rolling

We’ll be sure to get this on the news at ten

Crowd that gathered seemed undaunted, said it must be what god wanted

But that kid was eight years old and now he’s gone

And if you truly believe that it was his time to leave

I guess I’ll be the one to tell you that you’re wrong