Guns to a Playground Fight Lyrics

I've never lived a single day

In a world without mass school shootings

With Columbine in ninety-nine

You'd think by now I'd be desensitized

Sandy Hook when I was in seventh grade

How naive was I to believe things would change

(They never change)

'Cause that's the America we live in

That's the America we grew up in, don't you know?

That's the America we fight for even though

They fight back at us as they chant "pro-life"

Bringing their guns to a playground fight

I graduated college just last week and I think about how

I was lucky enough to make it all the way through

With just bomb threats, and shooting drills

And hearing from friends at Magruder and Great Mills

And seeing it on the news, and the grief and anxiety

But never the real thing

No never the real thing

And that's the America we live in

That's the America we grew up in, don't you know?

That's the America we fight for even though

They fight back at us as they chant "pro-life"

Bringing their guns to a playground fight

And my friends, they never hear the end of it

And I fear we'll never put an end to this

How many lives of children will be lost to it?

How many times?

How many times?

'Cause that's the America we live in

That's the America we grew up in, don't you know?

That's the America we fight for even though

They fight back at us as they chant "pro-life"

Bringing their guns to a playground fight

Bringing their guns to a playground fight