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There's a green plaid jacket on the back of the chair |
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It's like a moment frozen forever there |
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Mom and dad had a lot of big plans for their little man |
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"...So proud." |
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Mama's gone crazy 'cause her baby's shot down |
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By some teenage car chase war out of bounds |
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It was the wrong place wrong time wrong end of a gun. |
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Shoot straight from the hip |
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Gone forever in a trigger slip |
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You know, it could have been |
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It could have been your brother. |
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Shoot straight shoot to kill |
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Blame each other, blame yourselves |
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God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone |
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They're gonna call me sir they'll all stop picking on me |
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Well I'm a high school grad I'm over 5 foot 3 |
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I'll get a badge and a gun and I'll join the P.D. |
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They'll see |
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He didn't have to use the gun they put in his hand |
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But when the guy came at him, well he panicked and ran |
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And it's thirty long years before they give him another chance |
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And it's sad sad sad |
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John Lennon, Doctor King, Harvey Milk |
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all for goddamn nothing |
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God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone |
