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Nobody was hurt

 

Nobody was hurt, they say.

As millions of people are sent away. 

“We’re willing to fight for what\'s right.”

I enjoy being able to sleep at night. 

 

“Nobody was hurt.” 

 

This country\'s future used to be bright. 

Now not everyone has the 1st amendment right. 

“What is America without immigrants?”

What is a lamb without innocence? 

 

“Nobody was hurt.”

 

“You have a right to stand up for what you believe in.”

But we\'re being punished for it and we can\'t win. 

There\'s a war going on in our homeland. 

It\'s becoming our country\'s own brand. 

 

“Nobody was hurt.”

 

“The right to protest is supposed to be fundamentally American.”

A standard that we fail to meet over and over again and again.

People are trying to stand up and do what\'s right. 

But the government is keeping them locked up and out of sight.

 

But remember, they claim “nobody was hurt.”



With lines from \"US Veteran Charged With ‘Conspiracy’ Over ICE Protest Refuses To Plead Guilty\" by Aaron Glantz, a Pulitzer Center reporting