Sleep don’t come easy tonight.
I said sleep don’t come easy tonight.
When good men with black skin get gunned down a runnin’ and bad men get standing ovations.
I said sleep don’t come easy tonight.
When babies get brutalised and Daddy’s they tell lies; when lullabies they turn to cries.
I said sleep don’t come easy tonight.
When politics is predatory and people are secondary.
I said sleep don’t come easy tonight.
When victims get traumatised and predators get eulogised.
I said sleep don’t come easy tonight.
When trolls eat the children but trolls are really men.
I said sleep doing come easy tonight.
When the newsfeed is a horror show and you’re bound up and butchered slow.
I said sleep don’t come easy tonight.
When old folks are refuse and the truth is obtuse.
I said sleep don’t come easy tonight.
That’s what I said.
I said sleep won’t come easy tonight.