Lyrics

One thing you can't change this road leads all the way into the ground
We bleed and die the same it don't matter if you're white or brown
Running through these hills playing war when we were kids
You and me and Charles McGee a squad up on the ridge
You signed up for real stripes the same age your daddy did

Who are you fighting now, where's your enemy
What'd you carry home when you came back from overseas
Did they find the best of you and rip it out somehow
Weren't you once the same as me
Who are you fighting now

Your momma was so proud she'd polish up your badge so it would shine
It'd break her heart to know you've cowed and now you toe the line
It's an honor to protect and to serve you used to say
But these days you only serve yourself and look the other way
While they lay another black man into and early grave

Who are you fighting now, where's your enemy
What'd you carry home when you came back from overseas
Did they find the best of you and rip it out somehow
Weren't you once the same as me
Who are you fighting now

I don't recognize the face of this man I once called friend
Don't know where compassion dies and callousness begins
Unarmed boys dying to find out how this story ends

Who are you fighting now, where's your enemy
What'd you carry home when you came back from overseas
Did they find the best of you and rip it out somehow
Weren't you once the same as me
Who are you fighting now
Who are you fighting now