One million voices downtown Philadelphia and around city hall and The world repeat: No Justice No Peace Ebony men falling like black trees in the streets, police bullets cutting Them down. Thrown into the back of vans and dying on the way to jail Police with guilty hands walking away free Seems that the justice system has failed Stop and frisk various cities are trying, yet men of color keep on dying Woe is me, I can't see the end of it , what measures will stop the flood Of human grief from happening, body cameras on our finest in blue Show positive proof of deadly truth, yet and still public sorrow Still takes root, somehow in justice I,m still trying to believe But with one million voices like mine lifted in cities here In grief toward the skies, I say woe is me