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In the Eyes of the Law

from Songs of Patriotic Devotion by Samuel Windmill

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This one's for Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Walter Scott, and all the others gunned down by lawmen that act like thugs.

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Imagine if the day you were born
A pine box was made
With a jail cell with your name
To go along with it
Just waiting to contain you
One way or the other
Living with the fact that any day
The other shoe could drop down

This is not a reality for me
Because you see
My skin is white
So that makes me right
In the eyes of the law

Imagine for a second
If you were always more afraid
Of the ones who were sworn by oath
To serve and protect you
Than the lawless, the thieves
Marauding by nighttime
But that seems to be the way it goes
In the land of the free if you're not white

This is not a reality for me
Because oh you see
My skin is white
And that makes me right
By the eyes of the law

Imagine a world in which lawmen
Only acted like thugs
Just doing whatever they wanted
To get you in jail
It's getting much too close
To being all too real
For you and for me, but worse
For some more than others

This is not a reality right now
But you can see how
There could come the day
Until then, I'm free
From the long arm of the law

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from Songs of Patriotic Devotion, released March 2, 2017

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Samuel Windmill Coralville, Iowa

Samuel Fraser Windmill (born June 3, 1995) is an artist, musician, author and film maker currently living in Coralville, Iowa. A songwriter in some form or another since he was a toddler, and an artist of all kinds for just as long, his musical career began for all intents and purposes when in late 2010, at age 15, he met Detrell Smith (later of Other Band) and formed The Tea Party Fascists. ... more

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