Name: The Gun Song
Duration: P00H03M30S
Description: The Gun Song is my reaction to the epidemic of mass shootings that have scarred the United States in recent years. It has to stop. We all have to open our eyes and address this problem. I had to speak out, so I grabbed my guitar and sang.

The Gun Song

by Aaron Smith

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The Gun Song is my reaction to the epidemic of mass shootings that have scarred the United States in recent years. It has to stop. We all have to open our eyes and address this problem. I had to speak out, so I grabbed my guitar and sang.

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The bullets can’t see the children’s faces
Or tell the warzones from the holy places
There is no haven, there are no safe spaces
The bullets can’t see the children’s faces

Stop, stop, stop, stop
Stop and look around
There’s thunder in the air and death is rainin’ down
Blood is on the street where any of us can drown
See the blood soak into American ground

Can’t you see the fear on the innocent faces
Bodies on the floor where the blood leaves traces
There’s only one answer, no rocks or hard places
Can’t you see the fear on the innocent faces

Stop, stop, stop, stop
Stop and look around
There’s thunder in the air and death is rainin’ down
Blood is on the streets where any of us can drown
See the blood drip from the millionaires’ crowns

Thoughts are only thoughts and only actions last
We don’t need your prayers, we need laws to pass
There are madmen on the loose, we got to take away their toys
Forget about the money and your NRA boys

Stop, stop, stop, stop
Stop and look around
There’s thunder in the air and death is rainin’ down
Blood is on the streets where any of us can drown
See the blood drip from the senators’ crowns

Stop, stop, stop, stop
Stop and look around
There’s thunder in the air and death is rainin’ down
Blood is on the streets where any of us can drown
See the blood drip from the president’s crown

Take your thoughts and prayers and shove them up your ass
We’re only flesh and bone, this fragile human glass
Only flesh and bone, this fragile human glass
Only flesh and bone, this fragile human glass

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released August 17, 2019
Aaron Smith: vocals, acoustic guitar
Music and lyrics by Aaron Smith
Produced by Aaron Smith
Engineered by Brynen Sosa
Recorded at Oblique Studios, Vernon, New Jersey
Cover photo by Katie Buckley

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Aaron Smith Ringwood, New Jersey

At the age of 39, Aaron Smith took his old guitar out of the closet after 15 years, turned the skills he'd learned as a novelist toward lyric writing, learned to sing, and wrote and recorded his first EP, "Red Wolf Mist" over the course of the years 2016 to 2019. His second album, "Sand in the Hourglass" was released in August of 2021. ... more

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