Easy Target lyrics

Here's an easy target

With just one quiet pop

Shot to hell anyway

No reason to stop

In the streets and the gutters

The cotton fields in this land

Here's an easy target

With a trigger, in your hand

So, black lives matter

Who we trying to kid

Here's an easy target

Don't matter, never did

Crosses burning

Such a long time ago

400 years and we still don't let it go

Well let the poor be damned

And the easy targets too

All are created equal

Equally beneath me and you

Children crying

Under the time-keeping sun

The war on the easy targets

We won't ever get this done

Easy targets

All along the avenue

Living here in Sucker Town

Baby me and you

Behind the bars

To keep each other apart

Easy targets

Our country's broken heart

Our country's broken heart

• Artist:John Mellencamp
• Album:Sad Clowns & Hillbillies (2017)