A Room For Our Kids
Words and music by Joseph Bills

They’re building a room for our kids
To put them away like they did
Your empathy ain’t worth dirt
If it tells you our kids should be hurt

Bind them and crush them again
Make them pay for ours sins
If they can’t use their words
Put them where their screams can’t be heard

Throw them in prison if they’re black
If they’re white wait until they attack
Revenge for the unspeakable pain
Of being persecuted for your brain



Tagged: neurodivergent, protest, WIP

Based on complaints from the autism research group about new “timeout” (isolation) rooms being build in the wake of the pandemic to forcibly put neurodivergent kids in when they act out instead actually addressing the underlying problem the kid is reacting to. I thought “we don’t need a study to prove this is wrong, we need a protest song”.