[Verse 1]
Well, headlights kick the darkness of some back road of Alabama
This time there'll be no news team, no AP or UPI cameras
Well, car door opens
He's kicked to the ground
No one's gonna hear those
Hideous sounds

[Chorus]
It's a long time waiting 'til the justice kicks in
I wanna work for my wife and pray for my kids
Leave this world a little better than I found
Oh, in the cold ground
Cold, cold ground

[Verse 2]
Yes, legislation won't change
Hell's march in human hearts
It's been such a long time since I've seen the Spirit
Moving around these parts
Now from the blood of Abel
Under the earth
Crying to the Lord
Every drop screaming worth

[Chorus]
It's a long time waiting 'til the justice kicks in
I wanna work for my wife and pray for my kids
Leave this world a little better than I found
Oh, in the cold ground
Cold, cold ground
In the cold, in the cold ground
Cold, cold ground
[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]
There's a man in the field with a bullhorn and a sixth-grade education
And he's feeding us all his twisted ideas of some kind of race relations
He's got his finger on the trigger
He's been known to use it
He's got his boot in my gut
Lord, I'm sweating bullets

[Chorus]
It's a long time waiting 'til the justice kicks in
I wanna work for my wife and pray for my kids
Leave this world a little better than I found
Oh, in the cold ground
In the cold, cold ground
In the cold, in the cold ground, uh huh
Cold, cold ground

[Guitar Solo]