VIOLENT TENDENCIES

Do the numbers not scare you to death?

‘Cause they scare the living hell out of me.

Let the children be armed to the teeth.

And if that doesn’t work, just do it again and again ‘til it does.

‘Cause you hope that one day the figures will turn

and the thousands of lives that were given up will be worth it in your eyes.

We scream for those who can’t.

‘Cause humankind let you keep your gun, but took away their lives.

All to protect you and I from being killed by a kid with an unstable mind.

Are these vicious people a threat to you if they can’t pull the trigger?

How can allowing more people to get their hands on a firearm diminish the death toll?

What happens when frustration gets the best of you

while you carry your gun with your liquor?

You can say you stood your ground and walk away as a free man

with just a death on your conscience.

Tell me how you can be so blind?

‘Cause all the warning signs were there.

And you’re deliberately oblivious

if you think your kids don’t know where your guns are stored.

They’ll find it if they want.

Does your gut not wrench by the thought

of seeing your child being brought out in a body bag?

So you repeat the words “never again”.

And then it happens again.

When this pent-up anger slowly starts to spill

and there is no one who will help you catch the tears,

they’ll regret they ever upset you.

Then you’ll finally show them all.