Name: Uvalde (Twenty-One)
Duration: P00H04M37S
Description: This was inspired by a mass shooting down in Texas, and the guaranteed responses afterward.

Uvalde (Twenty-One)

from Mr. Petersik (And Other So-So Selections) by Buskers

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This was inspired by a mass shooting down in Texas, and the guaranteed responses afterward.

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Verse 1:
Psycho killer
Picks up his gun
It begins again
Goes to a school
There's a standoff
Down in Uvalde
21 dead
18 children
Where were the police?
They're holding back
For an hour
At a shooting scene

Chorus 1:
21 dead and the cops did nothing
21 dead and the cops did nothing
21 dead and the cops did nothing
-Except sit on their asses
21 dead and the cops did nothing
-I thought they were from Texas

Verse 2:
Up on the hill
Puffing up chests
To score image points
Doubling down
On their bluster
For their constituents
But here's the truth:
Neither side
Will do a goddamn thing
Story repeats
And I've heard it
For just over a score

Chorus 2:
21 dead, politics do nothing
21 dead, politics do nothing
21 dead, politics do nothing
-There's never been any progress
21 dead, politics do nothing
-Well that's why it's called Congress

Bridge:
And we will care about it for a single week
We'll change all our profile pics
We'll get involved with a slacktivist campaign
Then we'll move on to something else

Chorus 3:
21 dead and we all do nothing
-Sit on our derrières
21 dead and we all do nothing
-Offer our thoughts and prayers
21 dead and we all do nothing
-It'll never end
21 dead and we all do nothing
-'Cause it'll happen again
And again(repeat until end)

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from Mr. Petersik (And Other So-So Selections), released May 18, 2023

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