Anthem · Barking Justice Music

Still a long time gone

No trial. No charge. Just vanished. This is the fire Barking Justice Radio exists to name.

About this anthem

Still a Long Time Gone begins at the moment a person is stripped of more than freedom: their name disappears from the record, their family loses sight of them, and the protections that should stand between human beings and state power fall away. The anthem does not treat that disappearance as an isolated failure. It exposes it as a method.

The song names the machinery that makes erasure possible: badges backed by force but separated from accountability, boots entering homes while the language of order conceals the harm, and families divided without answers, hearings, or any certainty of reunion. It refuses to call secrecy due process, fear public safety, or unchecked power freedom.

As a Program Anthem, Still a Long Time Gone carries a warning that runs through the entire mission of Barking Justice Radio. When power can remove a person, erase the record, and answer to no one, everyone’s freedom becomes conditional. This anthem restores the names, preserves the witness, and refuses to look away until power is made accountable to the people it serves.

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Lyrics

Verse 1

You erased her name, then dragged her away, no trial, no charge, just vanished that day. Justice goes dim when you bury the proof, we see your game, and we’re through.

They cuff the truth, they choke the screams, rip down rights and sell us dreams. Badges backed by blood and lies, boots through doors while freedom dies. You call it order, I call it war.

Chorus

Still a long time gone, and it’s fear they want us breathing. Still a long time gone, but I won’t give in to grieving. Accountable to nothing, their hate won’t be our law. Still a long time gone, but I still know what I saw.

Verse 2

Families torn like paper, set adrift, no court, no call, no promise to lift. They scream about freedom while shutting the gate, let the innocent rot in a cage marked “State.”

Now history’s bleeding, the ink runs red, while cowards crown the tyrant’s head. But we are the fire, not the smoke, you can bury the truth, but it still spoke.

Bridge

You who hide behind badges and robes. You who erase the names of the dead, we see your shadows on every broken oath. And we are not afraid, we are the sound that rises in your hatred.

Final Chorus

Still a long time gone, but we’ve seen what truth can kindle. Still a long time gone, but your fear won’t dim this signal. Accountable or nothing, your empire cracks in dawn. Still a long time gone, and the fire is far from gone.

Outro

So bring your flags, your flashbang lies, your laws for sale and gospel spies. Swear in your frauds, prop up your kings, you can’t arrest what freedom sings. You built your throne on fear and smoke. But we’re the match. And the match just spoke.

Spoken

Barking Justice Music. I will not sit back any longer, and I will not be afraid.

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