07/31/17
You make me cry
a new kind of blues,
Thin Blue Line.
This is our chance for a new blue era,
an era shaped by bold blue vision—
but never forgetting the great blue tradition.
Lead us in a new Chicago Blues,
Thin Blue Line.
So sing with us, Thin Blue Line, a new Chicago Blues
and build a new blue people
from the waters of our lake,
from the slow roll of our three-part river.
Not a white song, red, yellow, or black song;
not a Christian, Muslim, Agnostic, or Hindu song;
not North Side, South Side, East Side or West Side song;
not a song for the rich, nor a song for the poor—
but a song for a new people.
Sing with us
to the single pulse
of blue blood
from the one Blue Chicago heart
of our New Chicago Blues.
We have it in us.
We can.
As we've said before,
"I Will."