Gun Violence
Oh, the Places You’ll Go Where You Won’t Get Shot!
Apologies to Dr. Seuss
Congratulations!
Today is your day!
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head
Unless you get shot
But it’s okay
You’ll get a prayer and a thought
You’ll look up and down streets
Look ’em over with care
It really doesn’t matter
Stay here or go there
Wherever you head
With your feet in your shoes
There’s a pretty good chance
Your life you will lose
Perhaps you meander to a wide-open space
You still might find a gun in your face
Oh, the places you’ll go where you won’t get shot!
It saddens me to say there are not a lot
We can’t go to church
Or the mall
Or the store
We can’t even go to school anymore
But when things start to happen
When the bullets fly by
Don’t worry
Don’t stew
Remember it’s not just happening to you
You’ll become a statistic
Written down in a book
Tucked away in a nook
Oh, the places you’ll go where you won’t get shot!
Except the park or the doctor
There just aren’t a lot
It isn’t the guns!
The GOP screams
It’s the doors, it’s the music, it’s the gaming, it’s memes
Bring God back to school
Ban saying gay
And gun violence will just go away
Oh, the places you’ll go where you won’t get shot!
Not the park or the beach
Whether an adult or a tot
We’re pro-life! Ted Cruz bellows
Well, except about guns
He cooked bacon on one
What a fine fellow
There are no places to go where you won’t get shot
It’s heartbreaking I know
Have a prayer and a thought
The caskets are small
Sobs ring through the air
But so many people simply don’t care
It isn’t the doors or the rap or the porn
It’s guns that force people to mourn
We need places to go where we won’t get shot
We need more than a prayer and a thought
