Outlaws

[00:23.17] A black battlement of pines hides Holman
[00:25.80] From the big-rig Yeomen on the highway
[00:29.18] Barbwire stockades, sniper turrets, Cotton fields
[00:31.79] Mechanized ghost of Fort Mims
[00:35.02] Down that green river, like a wire, like a nerve, like a vein
[00:38.08] Sacred names crawl through the mist
[00:40.10] Alabama, Tallapoosa, burnin' plantation walls
[00:42.96] Of the little man who called that sweet land his
[00:48.24] I wasn't ready
[00:53.66] Wasn't even there
[00:57.98] Swamp-slick trailers flank the reconstructed fort
[01:00.57] Waitin' on a four-hundred-year dream
[01:03.74] Stars and Stripes rotted to strips, faded slavers' cross King Trump's banner
[01:09.77] I hope the little man feels earth shake the day the flags drop
[01:13.17] The walls come tumblin' down, downriver, the cotton's rottin' in the fields
[01:16.39] They're hollerin' no prisons, no plantations in a free Alabama
[01:23.14] I wasn't ready
[01:28.63] Wasn't even there
[01:32.98] Outlaws
[01:36.36] Oh, please, make us fit to be outlaws
[01:41.92] Oh, please, make us fit to be outlaws
[01:48.08] Oh, please, make us fit to be outlaws
[01:54.42] Ooh
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[02:08.17] Through wild moonlight, across MLK
[02:10.11] Up to the city lockup's brutal bulk
[02:13.68] Rebel songs for debtors, indocumentation
[02:16.23] Sweatin' streets, the shuttered hoodoo shops
[02:19.77] Durag-crowned, dashiki-draped, black-masked
[02:22.06] Cowboy-booted in Troy Davis Park
[02:25.21] Indivisible under sweepin' choppers, SWAT tanks
[02:27.49] The burnt matchbook of faceless cops
[02:32.83] I wasn't ready
[02:38.32] Wasn't even there
[02:42.88] Outlaws
[02:46.03] Oh, please, make us fit to be outlaws
[02:52.04] Oh, please, make us fit to be outlaws
[02:57.74] Oh, please, make us fit to be outlaws
[03:04.64] Ooh
[03:06.79]
[03:24.59] I've been held by hazy skylines
[03:29.29] Of downtown, Tuskegee, Anniston, and Birmingham
[03:35.20] Bowed my head in the streets
[03:40.06] Where they stood strong
[03:47.66] Now I looked up into their ageless faces
[03:52.43] Gazin' off yonder into the thickets and the pines
[03:58.95] And I believe what they said
[04:10.65] The old-time inscriptions read
[04:21.72] "We fought the law and we won"
[04:27.68] We fought the law and we won
[04:33.58] We fought the law and we won
[04:36.61] We fought the law and we won
[04:39.64] We fought the law and we won
[04:42.50] We fought the law and we won
[04:45.67] We fought the law and we won
[04:48.37] We fought the law and we won
[04:51.57] We fought the law and we won
[04:54.77] We fought the law and we won
[04:57.63] We fought the law and we won
[05:00.61] We fought the law and we won
[05:03.74] We fought the law and we won
[05:06.91] We fought the law and we won
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