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, sad
Shoot straight from the hip
Gone forever in a trigger slip
Well, it could have been
It could have been your brother
Shoot straight, shoot to kill
You blame each other, well, blame yourselves
You know God is a bullet, have mercy on us, everyone
They're gonna call me Sir
They'll all stop pickin' on me
Well, I'm a high school grad, I'm over five foot three
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 a thirty long years so they give him another chance
And it's sad, sad, it's sad
Shoot straight from the hip
Yes, all gone in a trigger slip
Well, it could have been
It could have been your mother
Shoot straight, shoot to kill
You blame each other, blame yourselves
You know God is a bullet, have mercy on us, everyone
Shoot straight from the hip
Gone forever in a trigger slip
Well, it could have been there
It could have been your mother
John Lennon, Doctor King, Harvey Mildred
All for goddamn nothing
God is a bullet, have mercy on us, everyone
God is a bullet, have mercy on us, everyone

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