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God Damn! This is madness.
its the fourth consecutive week I've had this
reoccurring nightmare of a woman
who tries to walk her child to daycare

They pass a liquor store
See an average looking kid running out the door
In a moment frozen
they watch as he reveals a handgun

Terror in her voice no sound
he unloads a round her son goes down

Then I wake up screaming
but am I dreaming

cause its just another day

So many killings repeated
until people have no feeling
When every two years guns take more
American lives than the whole Vietnam war.

Six teens and children die
Every day in gun homicides

and the NRA lobby fool
Pays athletes to tell kids
to stay in school

Whoever said that must be joking,
Go tell that to the kids in Oakland,
DC. Detroit and Newark
And you wonder why kids don't do their homework

The school is a war zone
Teachers and students alike are afraid to leave home
Hallways are an innocent tomb
The principal's office a grieving room

This is a malignant cancer
Guards and metal detectors won't be the answer
Hundreds of thousands of students say they
carry guns to school daily

Growing up with fear and panic.
[scratch] Bang. Nine. Automatic.

[x2]
[scratch] Its genocide
America has the most homicides
Society devouring its own young

[x7]
Take away those guns
We need gun control

[scratch] Bang, Nine. Automatic

How can we stop the violence
When everywhere we look is the image of gun death
The Rodney King explosion
Is just one result of inner city erosion

Take away all hope
and kids will turn to robbery and dealing dope
You don't care about elections
What urban youth want is protection

From a life of war
could be the Iraqi war
or war in the Filmore

There is no more tragic sight
than a heavily armed youth with no respect for life.

The leading cause of death
in African American males
under the age of thirty five
At the funeral the friends will cry
but on the streets they tool and die

And Hollywood has done
more than anyone to glamorize the gun
in movies, music and TV.
[scratch] Its Genocide... can't you see...

Got to take the profit out of crime,
Stop glamorizing death on prime-time.
Cities aren’t the only places
Where kids are waging arms races

In suburbs and rural areas.
Across the country kids are carrying
Three more hours and another teenage youth
will have committed suicide

While his mothers crying
Gun advocates are on TV lying
To the public
about how people are the ones who kill
and guns don't

Until we have gun control
we can't stop these ten year olds
From going in their father's closet
Where the gun was left unlocked and loaded.

Where does it end?
When everyone gets their own piece,
dividend

[scratch] Its Genocide... can't you see...
[scratch] Obviously none of you can be trusted with guns. So I'm going to take them away from you.

Driving down Guerrero
Cut off a psycho kid looks like Sendero
Luminoso words are froze so
I don't start talking shit or acting macho

You could get popped in a minute
This is the wild, wild west and we're in it
And my kids don't want no play
When they have to worry about duckin’ spray

Or two drunks having an argument
In front of our apartment
When I hear that sound, I yell,
"Everyone get inside and get down."

GET DOWN!
Get the fuck down!

credits

from A Message To The People: A Tribute To CONSOLIDATED!, released December 13, 2019
Original version appears on Consolidated's album Play More Music

Written by Consolidated

Music by Abstinence
Mixed by Darryl Hell
Vocals by Darryl Hell and David 'Deftly-D' Dodson
Turntable scratches by Darryl Hell

Abstinence is Darryl Hell, John Bechdel, Deftly-D, Brian 'Beat' Senders and Mathew Roland III

Samples from Ice-T's Hunted Child and Meat Beat Manifesto's God O.D.

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