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A mouthful of smoke
Erupting inside
A halo of gunshots
Leaves a beautiful little dark haired girl
With the back of her head
Blown out
oh, it's so bad, it's so bad
Oh, nevermind, oh nevermind
Here is the spot
Where daddy and mummy
danced to a popular show tune
the children all giggled
Now they all rattle
Skeletons, skeletons
The sky is alive
A riot of colour as
Beautiful death dealing ribbons spiral down
From heaven, blue eyed boy
Flying away
High five, high five
Got a direct hit
His daddy drunk hard
Most of the time that he was growing up
So he grew up hard
Almost wanted something to believe in
Here is a kitchen
Here is a bedroom
Here is a doll, melted by fire
Here are the people
46
44
22
17
11
7
2
shots fired in the night
sometimes find their way in
oh, bury the little girl
oh, bury her away
they did this, you did this
you did this, they did this
God's soldiers
What will you say
on the day of judgment
When everything is revealed?
You carry on laughing now
You carry on waving that flag now
You carry on burning that flag now
You werent laughing then
Oh, you werent laughing then
What will you do
What will you say
If you are ever held to account
For the things you have done?
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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