Matthew Mayfield Still Alive song lyrics

Birmingham, 1963

A blue-eyed boy on safe ground just like me

Can you hear those screams comin' over that mountain?

The sound of supremacy forced on thousands

Can we recall

When hearts haven't changed at all?

When hate reigns in rings of fire,

And genocide is still alive

James Byrd, can you hear me cryin'?

A white boy in Alabama—head down tryin'

To figure out why they might do it to you

Three up front, prowlin' like animals do

String him up behind the truck, forty miles an hour

Run it red so the nigger can feel your white power

Can we recall

When hearts haven't changed at all?

When hate reigns in rings of fire,

And genocide is still alive

In Sudan there's a western fire burnin'

A child's eyes wide, watchin' barrels turning

They'll stake claim inside of your wife and daughter,

A bullet in the head for the government's honor

Can we recall

When hearts haven't changed at all?

When hate reigns in rings of fire,

And genocide is still alive

[x2]

Is still alive, still alive, still alive