Hello Birmingham Lyrics - To The Teeth - Ani Difranco

Hold me down 

I am floating away 

Into the overcast skies 

Over my home town 

On election day 

What is it about Birmingham? 

What is it about Buffalo? 

Did the hate filled want to build bunkers 

In your beautiful red earth 

They want to build them in our shiny white snow 

And now I've drawn closed the curtains 

In this little booth 

Where the truth has no place to stand 

And I am feeling oh so powerless 

In this stupid booth 

With this useless little lever in my hand 

And outside 

My city is bracing 

For the next killing thing 

Standing by the bridge 

And praying for the next Doctor Martin Luther King 

It was just one shot 

Through the kitchen window 

Just one or two miles from here 

If you fly like a crow 

A bullet came to visit a doctor 

In his one safe place 

A bullet ensuring the right to life 

Whizzed past his kid and his wife 

And knocked his glasses right off of his face 

And the blood poured off the pulpit 

Yeah the blood poured down the picket lines 

And the hatred was immediate, yeah 

And the vengeance was divine 

So they went and stuffed God down the barrel of a gun 

And after him they stuffed his only son 

Hello Birmingham; it's Buffalo 

I heard you had some trouble down there again 

Just calling to let to know 

That somebody understands 

I was once escorted 

Through the doors 

Of a clinic 

By a man 

In a bulletproof vest 

And no bombs 

Went off that day 

So I am still here to say 

Birmingham 

I'm wishing you all of my best 

Oh Birmingham 

I'm wishing you all of my best 

Oh Birmingham 

I'm wishing you all of my best 

On this election day