gunshots ring out
and another child is gone
and we can reach out
and we can love and we can shout
and here we are again, standing on a cloud, looking down…
and this won’t go away with distance,
it won’t go away with forgetting
it won’t go away
if we don’t find a way
To let our light shine through…(x2)
And fathers forgive them
for trespassing on us
mothers forgive them
for rewriting and rewriting history
just to make us believe we were destined to this
death on the doorstep ( x4)
Gunshots ring out, a thousand childhoods gone
(repeat 1st verse)
and here we are again (etc.)
let our light shine through…(x6)
