Look The Other Way - Katie Pruitt

They bulldozed over the memories

To build apartments with amenities

And left the low income families

Broke on the outskirts of town

Might be the change on the surface that bothers me

Or the underlying lack of humanity

Might be a little of everything

But I can never quite pin it down

And I get pissed when people tell me «That's the way it is»

As if that’s all that they know how to say

When you walk past do you even stop and ask

Or have you learned to look the other way?

The devil’s wearing a suit and tie

Swearin' on the Bible, there’s a twitch in his eye, I guess

Every crook’s got an alibi

As long as they got money to blow

'Cause every last dollar goes to feed the machine

So they can keep on selling the American dream

While our TV dinners and Photoshopped screens

Just keep on killing us slow

And I get pissed when people tell me «That's the way it is»

Feels like that’s all they know how to say

And it’s so sad to watch you give up the little power you have

All because you’d rather look the other way

Headlines are bleedin' read

With the name of a man that I’ve never met

Cuffed on the street with a knee on his neck

And tears spillin' out of his eyes

Are we heartless or are we numb?

Changin' the channel on the television

And telling ourselves we’re not the ones

And refusing to apologize

And I get pissed when people tell me «That's the way it is»

When there is so much more that we can say

If you walked past knowing that breath might be his last

Would you still have looked the other way?

(Would you still have looked the other way?)

Would you still have looked the other way?

(Would you still have looked the other way?)

Would you still have looked the other way?