Daughters and Sons

A song….

Here’s my newest song. The recording is a little rough, but I wanted to get it out in the world. Link to SoundCloud below, followed by a transcript of the lyrics.

Daughters and Sons

Well, it’s happened again, this time in Nashville

Armed and prepared and ready to kill

 anyone in the path of the bullets’ spray

oh It’s just another day in the USofA

Your thoughts and your prayers and your phony tears

We get your messages loud and clear

you want more rights for your goddamn guns

than we have for our daughters and sons

You outlaw a drag show and transgender youth

Priorities twisted, denying the truth

It’s the guns, it’s the guns, it’s the guns, it’s the guns

Killing our daughters and sons.

[Bridge]

Now we’ve nowhere to go, no place that feels safe

not grade schools or dance halls, or houses of faith

The second amendment so misunderstood.

Now robbing our babies of childhood  

<Keening>

The weapons they use are intended to slaughter

Innocent people served up as fodder

An AR15 in the hands of a teen

killing our sons and our daughters

Each time this happens we scream NOT ONE MORE

But you turn away, you choose to ignore

And it’s clear where you and the NRA stand

you have so much blood on your hands

[Bridge]

Now we’ve nowhere to go, no place that feels safe

not colleges, concerts, or houses of faith

You think the solution for our daughters and sons

is a good guy with a gun

It’s the guns, it’s the guns, it’s the guns, it’s the guns

Killing our daughters and sons.

It’s the guns, it’s the guns, it’s the goddamn guns

Killing our daughters and sons.

Killing your daughters and sons.

<keening> <fade —>

—March - April 2023

@Terri Grayum