Tribute to the Fallen

Twenty twelve in Sandy Hook
Twenty young people died
And six of their teachers
And the whole country cried
Twenty kids who never saw eight candles on their cakes
Twenty kids who'll never be kissed on a first date
Some say they're collateral damage
For a higher need we have
To overthrow the government if ever it goes bad

Our thoughts and prayers go out to you
The maimed and departed
This is the price we've agreed to pay
To keep our country guarded

On a beautiful night In Vegas
In the shadow of the Mandalay Bay
With country music playin'
A perfect American day
A thousand rounds rained down that night
Leaving sixty people dead
Hundreds more were wounded
Cut down where they fled
You can blame the founding fathers
For a future they couldn't see
But In every war for freedom there's always casualties

Our thoughts and prayers go out to you
The maimed and departed
This is the price we gotta pay
To keep our country guarded

At a Walmart in El Paso
A kid just twenty one
Wrote his manifesto
With the barrel of his gun
He hated all Latinos and the mess he thought they'd made
But his headline was a waste of time
Cause a shooter on the very next day
Thirty seconds after opening fire
On the sidewalk he lay cold
Long enough to take the lives of nine in Ohio

Our thoughts and prayers go out to you
To the maimed and departed
This is the price we gotta pay
To keep our country guarded

Parkland was a name we knew
From the day Kennedy died
We think now of a high school
Where survivors organized
In the name of seventeen wounded
And the seventeen who died
They went to the White House
And begged for a compromise
They left with the reassurance
New laws would be made
But the next knock on the door that night
Was from the NRA

Thoughts and prayers go out to those
The people we lost today
They've paid the highest price
Any one of us can pay

Twenty two kids get shot today
Eight of 'em don't go home
By murder and by accident
And for reasons no one knows
Mothers inconsolable
Blinded in your grief
Find some satisfaction
In the sacrifice you leave
We may not remember faces
Or recognize the names
But we know your little babies
Didn't die in vain