Estranged Fruit

The poplar trees are now populous

And not just in the south

Now fear has cloaked compassion

We must join forces and speak out

We may not see as many bodies

Hanging from the trees

'Cause they're busy lynching our ideals

Our pride and liberties

Limbs across America

Might now bare less strange fruit

Because hanging's out of fashion

When cops can justly shoot

This genocide of common sense

This hunt on decency

Is making hate, seem great again

On FOX commentary

Estranged fruit

Estranged fruit

Oh-ho, oh-ho, estranged fruit

Estranged fruit

Hey-hey, ho-hey

Oh

The Christian right and rural white

Needs someone to resent

'Cause it's too hard to face that we're all

Owned by the one percent

Why don't everybody understand

That since all humans are tethered

When one race is dehumanized

We all get tarred and feathered?

Marginalizing minorities

Is just the rich using the poor

Don't let yourself be drafted (drafted)

In this Trumped up race war

Racism was invented (yeah, yeah)

Bigotry is not innate (no-no-no, no-no)

With no one to police the police (aw-aw-aw-aw!)

It must be a police state

Estranged fruit (estranged fruit)

Hey man, don't shoot (estranged fruit)

Hey man, don't shoot (estranged fruit)

Hey man, don't shoot (estranged fruit)

Hey man, don't shoot (estranged fruit)

Hey cop, don't shoot (estranged fruit)

Please, cops, don't shoot (estranged fruit)

Please, cops, don't shoot (estranged fruit)

Please, cops, don't shoot