Letras
They put him on a midnight plane
No charge, no judge, no name
Said "son, you fit a pattern now
Ink on skin's enough to blame
Foreign sky, a concrete gate
Hands that never learned his face
They say it ain't our doing now
Once the border's in the place
If you know a place breaks bodies
And you send folks there anyway
You don't get to wash your conscience
'Cause the pain's so far away
Call it order, call it safety
Call it keeping danger out
But when you ship men into torture
That's brutality, outsourced
Lights stay on, the nights stay long
Steel and numbers, not their names
Every half hour boots come through
Just to teach 'em fear behaves
No courtroom, no second look
No wrong once the door's been closed
Truth don't travel past those walls
Once the paperwork is sold
If you know a place breaks bodies
And you send folks there anyway
You don't get to claim clean hands
'Cause the beating's overseas
Doesn't matter whose fist swings it
Or whose flag flies in the yard
When the order's signed back home
That blood still leaves a mark
They filmed it all, then pulled the cord
Said "not yet, it needs more time
Funny how the truth gets fragile
When it's staring down a line
A story shelved before the sun
Before the nation got to see
Silence answered every question
No one asked on TV
So ask it soft, don't raise your voice
Don't turn it into a fight
Are you okay with safety bought
By breaking men at night
If the answer's yes, say it plain
Don't dress it up as law
History remembers silence
Every time it's called
If you know a place breaks bodies
And you send folks there anyway
You don't get to plead surprise