To Protect And Serve lyrics - Dan Bull

We're only here to protect and serve

We're only here to protect and serve

We're only here to protect and serve

If we suspect you'll interfere, then you'll get what you deserve

We're only here to protect and serve

We're only here to protect and serve

How many necks must we crush 'til the lesson's learned?

We're only here to protect and serve

It seems policing can attract a certain type of psychopath

Who can't be satisfied without asserting mindless violent acts

And when the suspected perp's a guy that's black, society's fine with that?

Apparently not, that's why they're reciting the riot act

Riots are the language of the unheard, who can't speak

And how can you speak one word if you can't breathe?

And how can you breathe with policemens' knees across your throat

When politicians speak against it they just lost the vote

And what, we're supposed to believe we're equal, but we're not supposed to live it?

Well most of us are close to the limit and won't admit it

The status quo's hoping all those soaps are soporific

But now the clips captured on our own phones are so horrific

Folks won't forget it quick, they're prone to go ballistic

Yet history leaves the deepest lesions on its most outspoken critics

There have been legions that have pledged allegiance against prejudice

From police to priests, who breach the peace, religious fundamentalists

You get the gist, it could be just the smallest portion of our law enforcement

But reason calls for us to treat them all with caution

If there's good cops and bad cops riding side by side

Then the good cops should stop the bad cops who try to hide

We're only here to protect and serve

We're only here to protect and serve

We're only here to protect and serve

If we suspect you'll interfere, then you'll get what you deserve

We're only here to protect and serve

We're only here to protect and serve

How many necks must we crush 'til the lesson's learned?

We're only here to protect and serve

I'm so sick of seeing people of colour being treated as other

Each of us bleeds when we're cut, but who's cleaning the blood up?

Human beings, do you see the missing piece of the puzzle?

Specifically, it's difficult to speak when groups of people are muzzled

You wonder why people would turn up to the words of Malcolm X

After hundreds of years of treatment without worth, without respect?

When Kaepernick kneeled it was disrespect

But it's standard practice to kneel on a citizen's neck?

Seems to be a way to keep the dissidents in check

How can you play the hand you're dealt when you're given a different deck?

Maybe my words are ignorant, maybe I'm virtue signalling

But it's way worse to sit indifferent to the hurt you're witnessing

To turn away as they inflict it on an undeserving victim

They'll commit the worst of sins while still insisting they're a Christian

Burning bridges, burning crosses, what the fuck's this system

A godless religion at odds with its mission, but still

We're only here to protect and serve

We're only here to protect and serve

We're only here to protect and serve

If we suspect you'll interfere, then you'll get what you deserve

We're only here to protect and serve

We're only here to protect and serve

How many necks must we crush 'til the lesson's learned?

We're only here to protect and serve