Midnight Fires

Our brothers waged a lonely fight, while the bottom reaches out Our leaders in the hall tonight try to talk this country down Light up the land that crowned you Take up the call around you We're all under the microscope searching for the fire We've surrendered a kind of hope searching for the fire Who will see the crime in every face? Who will face the fire then turn away Who has spoken out, stand or be put down Who will face the wise, and watch the system die Someone set the hills alight with a blinding midnight fire A history worth of a nation's crime, lie atop this funeral pyre See how the world has found you Hiding from what surrounds you We're all under the microscope searching for the fire We surrendered a kind of hope searching for the fire Who will see the crime in every face? (are we coming undone?) Who will face the fire then turn away? (are we coming undone?) Who has spoken out, stand or be put down Who will face the wise, then watch the system die...