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The Rest of Them (Demo) lyrics by Shauna Dean Cokeland

Deny, depose, defend
A businessman met an early end
Left his lonely widow crying in the Benz
Certainly the tens of people cry along with them
In trailers and in shelters and in pens

I rake the leaves all in my yard
But more just fall abreast of them
I hope we get the rest of them
I hope we get the rest of them

His gravestone’s barely laid
They show his smiling picture on the evening news at 8
Saying violence ain’t the answer, when will people learn?
But in a million different churches a million candles burn
For a million different people who waited for their turn

In Baltimore and LA and in New York and in Houston
And in Gaza and in Haiti and all across the planet
When your only claim to freedom is easily denied
You work yourself to death just to keep yourself alive
Haven’t picked your gun up since 1965

The changes that they promised us
The rich men all attest to them
I hope we get the rest of them
I hope we get the rest of them