Stolen Life Lyrics - P!nk

1 CHORUS

2 Wake up in the morning go to work

3 Fire up the truck and drive to Sonoma

4 Hop on the forklift

5 Fill up the truck with ten thousand pounds of newspaper

6 Ten thousand pounds of racist, trash, and lies

7 Drive the truck back to Santa Rosa put the newspaper in the recycle

8 So the rich white man can print out the same batch of lies

9 Again and again and again and again and again and again and again

10 It's too bad the cops had to kill that man

11 But he had a broomstick and he was Asian

12 We know they're all samurai warriors

13 They're all kung fu masters

14 They're all just like Jackie Chan

15 It's too bad the cops had to restrain his wife

16 Cause she was a registered nurse and she tried to save his life

17 But that would go against rules and regulations

18 To just forget at 2 at night

19 We're so proud of our boys in blue

20 Cause they always do what's right

21 I saw Eileen today

22 I saw her children play in the courtyard

23 Lately it occurred to me

24 How does a mama tell her children their dad got killed by the police?

25 CHORUS

26 It's too bad the cops had to kill that kid

27 But someone called in a stolen walkman

28 The cops they chased him down but he refused to lie face on the ground

29 And he just walked away

30 The cop said, "This punk can't walk away in the all black night

31 so I had to shoot him in the back of the head

32 From fifty feet away

33 I had to kill him it was self defense

34 I was afraid he would circle back around and kill me."

35 I saw Corneleus speak today at the Hayward High

36 That other police stole his sons life away

37 Over a walkman that wasn't that much more than change

38 How does a father find justice for a son stolen away?

39 Stolen away

40 Stolen away

41 Stolen away

42 Stolen away

43 I don't want to hear your news cast anymore cause it's bullshit

44 I don't want to see your headlines anymore cause they're bullshit

45 I don't want to hear your press release anymore cause it's bullshit

46 I don't want to see your police report anymore cause it's bullshit