THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
(from the album "You're Getting Sleepy")
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
(from the album "You're Getting Sleepy")
words and music
copyright © 2015 by
Roy Zimmerman and Melanie Harby
copyright © 2015 by
Roy Zimmerman and Melanie Harby
Another day, another crazy loner with a gun
Another mad commando's done what cannot be undone
The congressperson semi-automatically declares
"To the victims of this tragedy we send our Thoughts and Prayers"
If guns are regulated, well we're on slippery slope
To common sense and public safety, reason, peace and hope
But rest assured, we’ve got the issue square in our crosshairs
And to the victims of this tragedy we send our Thoughts and Prayers
“Aim high,” we say, “Shoot straight,” we say, “Go for the kill,” we shout
“We've got the enemy in our sights,” we say, “Let's take 'em out.”
We vomit violent rhetoric like drunken legionnaires
And to the victims of this tragedy we send our Thoughts and Prayers.
Let's fight for open carry
So Curly, Moe and Larry
Can act like Dirty Harry
Now let us pray for peace
And throw another AK-47 in the cart
For hunting deer, of course, who might be shopping at Walmart
We answer to a higher truth called “What the Market Bears”
And to the victims of this tragedy we send our Thoughts and Prayers
"The tree of Liberty is watered with a tyrant's blood"
Yes, so said Thomas Jefferson, or was it Elmer Fudd?
For bloody insurrection a true patriot prepares
And to the victims of this tragedy we send our Thoughts and Prayers
I like that Second Amendment remedy
So I'm voting for Yosemite Sam
Yes I am, yes I am, yes I am
So take comfort - I mean cover - it's a problem we can't fix
There's nothing certain in this world 'cept guns and lunatics
Our words say "We're so sorry," and our actions say "Who cares?”
And to the victims of this tragedy
And of every subsequent tragedy
We’ll send only our Thoughts and Prayers
Another mad commando's done what cannot be undone
The congressperson semi-automatically declares
"To the victims of this tragedy we send our Thoughts and Prayers"
If guns are regulated, well we're on slippery slope
To common sense and public safety, reason, peace and hope
But rest assured, we’ve got the issue square in our crosshairs
And to the victims of this tragedy we send our Thoughts and Prayers
“Aim high,” we say, “Shoot straight,” we say, “Go for the kill,” we shout
“We've got the enemy in our sights,” we say, “Let's take 'em out.”
We vomit violent rhetoric like drunken legionnaires
And to the victims of this tragedy we send our Thoughts and Prayers.
Let's fight for open carry
So Curly, Moe and Larry
Can act like Dirty Harry
Now let us pray for peace
And throw another AK-47 in the cart
For hunting deer, of course, who might be shopping at Walmart
We answer to a higher truth called “What the Market Bears”
And to the victims of this tragedy we send our Thoughts and Prayers
"The tree of Liberty is watered with a tyrant's blood"
Yes, so said Thomas Jefferson, or was it Elmer Fudd?
For bloody insurrection a true patriot prepares
And to the victims of this tragedy we send our Thoughts and Prayers
I like that Second Amendment remedy
So I'm voting for Yosemite Sam
Yes I am, yes I am, yes I am
So take comfort - I mean cover - it's a problem we can't fix
There's nothing certain in this world 'cept guns and lunatics
Our words say "We're so sorry," and our actions say "Who cares?”
And to the victims of this tragedy
And of every subsequent tragedy
We’ll send only our Thoughts and Prayers
