Lights Out

Little boy blue, favorite son

All dressed up just like Clint Eastwood

Cereal bowl, school, run

I never thought that kid would kill someone

Lights out

Stop, drop and roll

Shotgun, fire, lock and load

Down goes another, another one

Lights out

Lights out

Columbine

Uvalde

Stoneman Douglas High

Sandy Hook

Virginia Tech

Red Lake Senior High

Santa Fe High School

To just name a few

Government official, State capital

Re-run of the same old puppet show

High noon, war drum

All playing cowboy and Indians

Lights out

Cueing up to die

Candle, vigil, cross-eyed

Hang tough, till the next time

Lights out

Lights out

Deeply sad, thought and prayer

Again and again, bloody hands

Shock, trauma, running, scared

Excuse me, sir, the buck stops where?

Lights out

Stop, drop and roll

Shotgun, fire, lock and load

Down goes another, another one

Lights out

Cueing up to die

Candle, vigil, cross-eyed

Hang tough, till the next time

Lights out

Lights out

Lights out

Lights out

Our generation lives in constant fear

Whether it’s in a movie theater in our classroom

Or just on the street in front of our homes

Kids are dying not only in school shootings

But from daily gun violence