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​THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
words and music by
Roy Zimmerman and Melanie Harby

​copyright © 2015

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 Thought and Prayers


"Thoughts and Prayers" is on the new two-album release THIS MACHINE: THE BEST OF ROY ZIMMERMAN, and on the album RIZE UP, available as a CD, as a digital download and as part of the Complete Collection. 
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