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