Tears augment their eyes and in anger they shade them
And nothing we’ve said could stop or persuade them
The violence runs ramped in the streets of our lives
Guns spare no husbands, no children, no wives
The little ones hurt what they don’t understand
The parents ask why, saying this wasn’t planned
We lock up our youth and pretend they weren’t there
We claim it’s the systems burden to bear
E pluribus Unum. In God we trust
But the game is over. He gave up on us
