There's a green plaid jacket on the back of the chair

It's like a moment frozen forever there



Mom and dad had a lot of big plans for their little man

"...so proud."

Mama's gone crazy 'cause her baby's shot down

By some teenage car chase war out of bounds

It was the wrong place wrong time wrong end of a gun.



Shoot straight from the hip

Gone forever in a trigger slip

You know, it could have been

It could have been your brother.

Shoot straight shoot to kill

Blame each other, blame yourselves

God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone



They're gonna call me sir they'll all stop picking on me

Well i'm a high school grad i'm over 5 foot 3

I'll get a badge and a gun and i'll join the p.d.

They'll see

He didn't have to use the gun they put in his hand

But when the guy came at him, well he panicked and ran

And it's thirty long years before they give him another chance

And it's sad sad sad



John lennon, doctor king, harvey milk

All for goddamn nothing

God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone