The Truth Is The Flood
An Elegy For Alex Pretti
Another Minnesotan murdered in cold-blood by our own government and the smear campaign that follows. We’ve seen this movie before. (Scroll to the bottom for different genre versions. I’ve tried to make all of them faithful to Minnesota music throughout the years.)
Lyrics
In the blue light hum of the VA hall
Where the veterans fade and the shadows crawl
Alex Pretti would walk with a gentle decree
From the silent machines to the last ones who breathe
He’d count out the breathing and he would know
When a soldier was ready and waiting to go
He handled the dying with dignified grace
A master of mercy in that final place
Oh, the healer is down in the Minneapolis snow
Where the feds came for blood just to put on a show
They twisted his arm while he held up his phone
And silenced the man who helped one of his own
At 26th and Nicollet mercy was met
By the bullets of State and a government debt.
He didn’t have rank and he didn’t have greed
Just a nursing degree and a will to succeed
If success is a measure of who you protect
And leaving this world more human than wrecked
They sprayed in his eyes till the world went to gray
Then the masked force took reason away
Ten shots in the morning when he was under control
For the sin of a witness, for his Constitutional role
Pam Bondi spewed her cold-blooded lies
Called the servant a terrorist to veil their crimes
They photographed the gun he never did draw
To justify murder and clothe it in law
From the Oval of venom, the slander was hurled
At the man who gave breath into a suffocating world
The video is everywhere, the truth is the flood
That turns the tide for the price of his blood
Oh, the healer was put down in the Minneapolis snow
Where the feds came for blood just to put on a show
They twisted his arm while he held up his phone
And silenced the man who helped one of his own
But the voice of the people is loud and is clear:
We will not rest till freedom and justice are here
David, I just spent the last 45 minutes listening to the music you've brought us. The songs are truly based in the reality of the moment we are living in. Very good work.
In my opinion I do feel the momentum is changing. People are starting to wake up and realize that this is not the America that is healthy for it's citizens. We must continue to protest and demonstrate as we do every week in Chaska. We are just one of the thousands of groups in the U.S. and hundreds of groups across the world. People just want to live in peace and take care of each other, just as your songs express. Thank you.
David A.