| There’s a green plaid jacket on the back of the chair
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| It’s like a moment frozen forever there
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| Mom and dad had a lot of big plans for their little man
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| So proud
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| Mama’s gone crazy 'cause her baby’s got down
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| By some teenage car chase war out of bounds
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| It was the wrong place
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| A wrong time, a wrong end of the gun, sing
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| Shoot straight from the hip, yeah
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| You’re all gone in a trigger slip
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| It could have been
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| It could have been your brother
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| Shoot straight, shoot to kill, yeah
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| Blame each other, well, blame yourselves
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| You know, God is a bullet
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| Have mercy on us everyone
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| They’re gonna call me sir, they’ll all stop fuckin' with me Well I’m a high school grad, I’m over 5 foot 3
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| I’ll get a badge and a gun and I’ll join the P.D.
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| They’ll see
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| Didn’t want to use the gun, they put in his hand
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| But when the guy came at him, well he panicked and ran
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| And it’s thirty long years before they give him another chance
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| And it’s sad
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| Shoot straight from the hip, yeah
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| You’re all gone in a trigger slip
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| It could have been
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| It could have been your brother
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| Shoot straight, shoot to kill, yeah
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| Blame each other, let’s blame ourselves
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| You know, God is a bullet
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| Have mercy on us everyone
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| Shoot straight through the hip, yeah
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| You’re all gone in a trigger slip
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| It could have been
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| It could have been your brother
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| John Lennon, Doctor King and four innocent guys
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| Goddamn nothin'
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| God is a bullet, have mercy on us everyone
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| God is a bullet, have mercy on us everyone, oh, no no |