White lights reverberated hallelujah across blue sun kissed rivers in an endless chorus of need we are free Free to believe that we have endless opportunity in a sea of nettles tightening their grip on every wrist reaching for salvation Pushing their way up to the great promise of a burning red dream screaming passion in their sheets as they drip with the atrocities the atrocities of the people, for the people, by the people. the people who are chained together by the stripes that freed them