American Reckoning Songtext
von Bon Jovi

America′s on fire
There's protests in the street
Her conscience has been looted
And her soul is under siege
Another mother′s cryin'
As history repeats
I can't breathe

Goddamn those eight long minutes
Lying face-down in cuffs on the ground
Bystanders pleaded for mercy
As one cop shoved a kid in the crowd

When did a judge and a jury
Become a badge and a knee
On these streets?

Stay alive, stay alive
Shine a light, stay alive
Use your voice and you remember me
American reckoning


I′ll never know what it′s like
To walk a mile in his shoes
And I'll never have to have the talk
So it don′t happen to you

Three little words written 'cross the chest
Of a twelve-year-old who hasn′t lived life yet
Am I next?
Am I next?

Stay alive, stay alive
Shine a light, stay alive
Use your voice and you remember me
American reckoning

Is this a moment or movement?
Is this the tide or a flood?
Is our American reckoning
Our story written in blood?
Or in love?
Or in peace?

Stay alive, stay alive
Shine a light, stay alive
Use your voice and you remember me


Stay alive, stay alive
Shine a light, stay alive
Use your voice and you remember me
American reckoning
In our American reckoning