Another Shooting

The night is falling on this consecrated ground
Tears are being shed, raining all around
No words are spoken, even if words could be found
More victims of a shooting, the bodies compound

Don't need your thoughts and prayers
Pretending that you care
Don't need your fake sympathies
Or the propaganda you'll share
Your solution is that everyone have a gun
It's an opinion you'll keep
Until you've lost your only son
And you've watched your family weep
Until you've buried your daughter
Your mother or your wife
Or witnessed the slaughter
And see someone lose their life
Then everything changes
But by then it's to late
And you'll rationalize your stupidity
Chalking it up to fate

Tell you what, I'll say a prayer for you
Oh Lord, forgive these idiots
For what they say and do
They are afraid of the facts
Afraid they'll lose their guns
They'd rather go on the attack
Rather lose their sons

We need to look deep inside
It's time to face the truth
No one should see such things
Especially in their youth.