Here's my song about gun control
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As my politics begin to roll
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Things are getting out of control
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It's time to stop, drop and rock 'n' roll
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We built and sold them the guns
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Made in America
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Glued to the tube TV before Dallas 1963
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It was assumed baby boomers
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Bloomed doomed to ruin the country
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But who knew the children of Normandy
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Soon would resume war with Vietnamese
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Overseas, we sent 18 year-olds to bleed
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Face it, like Oswald woke the nation
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Osama woke my generation
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Now the kids of Nintendo
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If drafted will attend the
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Bush administration family agenda
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Of bending back hands and sending children
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Attacking Iraqi lands and buildings
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So Cheney can rebuild for 200 billion
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They'll disarm the regime but not the children
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We built and sold them the guns
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Made in America
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Sacrificing our kids lives for global crisis
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While fools of the NRA
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Watch kids shoot kids in high schools
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With tools they say kill deer
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Not fill pools of blood
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And guts, and tears, and the love and trust
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We lent to the government
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That's here to protect not just guns but us
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Don't place blame on video games
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Marilyn Manson or NWA
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How can we blame them for the situation?
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When an Alzheimer's patient
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Leads the Nation Rifle Association
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We built and sold them the guns
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Made in America
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I'm a Reagan Baby
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My formative years are the 1980s
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Russian production and reduction
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Of weapons of mass destruction
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Happened already
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Even the Cuban missile crisis
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Had pictures of bombs throughout the island
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To sway bias
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And now we hide behind bombs
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Dropped on innocent moms
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Ignoring gun control and dropping stocks
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Senate majority leaders opposing '57 Little Rock
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While we annihilate North Korea, Iran and Iraq
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If the government shoots first
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To stimulate commerce
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Things are only going to get worse
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If the government shoots first
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We built and sold them the guns
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Made in America
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We sold them the same guns
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That are now facing back towards us
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And what do we do?
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We go over there
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But until we view here and there as the same place
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We will always be fighting another religion, another race
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There are peaceful solutions
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There are peaceful resolutions
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Peace
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M.I.A.
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Rilo Kiley |