One Bullet

One bullet, one gun One dead, but we all bleed son And you know it's such a shame One life, more tears I can't believe that it's going on here God knows it's such a shame Take a look at America 'Cause it's much too late Once the horse has run You can't go back and shut the gate If we ever see the day When all innocence is gone Tell me, what have we become? One child in the way Wrong time at the wrong place And you know it's such a shame Too young to live in fear But you ain't got the time To be a kid 'round here Lord knows it's such a shame You shouldn't have to worry now When you barely reach fifteen You got enough to cope with anyway If we can't protect the young From themselves it would seem We're watching as our future slides away Why in this crazed new millennium Do we still have so much to learn? Tell me why When it's clear in the past every scared kid would run Now he's wrapping his fist 'round a gun And somebody dies One bullet, one gun One dead and we all bleed son And you know it's such a shame One life, more tears I can't believe that it's going on here And you know it's such a shame You know it's such a shame