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- GUNS IN AMERICA
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- TYPED BY CAZ
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- As I live in America, I thought I'd tell everyone that we are not all
- gun-owning maniacs. To show you I have typed out the lyrics from a
- rap/dance track. I cannot tell you who did this track, as I forgot to
- write down the name of the artist before I gave it back to my friend !
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- Damn ! This is madness,
- It's the fourth consecutive week I've had this,
- Reoccuring nightmare of a woman,
- Who's trying to walk her child to daycare,
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- They pass a liqour store,
- See an average looking kid running out the door,
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- In a moment frozen,
- They watch as he reveals a hand gun,
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- Terror in her voice - no sound,
- He unloads a round,
- Her son goes down,
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- Then I wake up screaming,
- But am I dreaming,
- 'Cus it's just another day,
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- So many killings,
- Repeated until people have no feelings,
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- When every two years guns take more,
- American lives than the whole Vietnam War.
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- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
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- How can we stop the violence,
- When everywhere we look,
- There's an image of gun-death,
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- The Rodney King exposure,
- Is just one result of inner-city erosion,
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- Take away our hope,
- And kids will turn to rivalry,
- And dealing in dope,
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- They don't care about elections,
- What urban youth want,
- Is protection,
- From a life of war,
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- There's no more a tragic sight,
- Than a heavily armed youth with no respect for life.
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- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
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- And Hollywood has done,
- More than anyone,
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- To glamourise the gun,
- Movies, music and TV,
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- Gotta take the profit outta crime,
- Stop glamourising death on prime-time,
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- Cities are the only places,
- Where kids are wagin arms races,
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- In suburbs or rural areas,
- Across the country kids are carriers,
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- 3 more hours and another teenage youth,
- Will have committed suicide,
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- While his mother's crying,
- Gun advocates are on TV lying,
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- To the public,
- About how people are the ones who kill and guns don't,
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- Do we have gun control ?
- We can't stop these ten-year-olds,
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- From going into fathers closet,
- Where the gun was left unlocked anbd loaded,
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- Where does it end ?
- When everyone has got there own piece ?
- -Dividends.
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- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
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- And my kids don't wanna play,
- When they have to worry about duckin` spray,
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- Or two drugs havin an argument,
- In front of our appartment,
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- When I hear that sound,
- I yell "Everyone one get inside, get down"
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- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
-
- Well, there you go. I hope someone somewhere will listen to
- this track and do something to change this madness. Thanks for
- listening.
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