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Littleton Aftermath Words and Music by Robert Wynne © 1999 April 22, 1999 It's a thing that shouldn't happen, but too often now it will And it breaks the heart each time you hear of someone's children killed Last night I turned on the evening news, and felt my blood go cold And cried as I watched the story there unfold The scene was Colorado, in a nice suburban school Things like this don't happen there! It goes against the rule It's not the inner city, but it happened just the same And the reporters were all wondering who to blame And you can say we need more gun control, or armed guards at the schoolsThere were sixteen or maybe more whose lives were just erased The contributions they might have made can never be replaced They won't have the chance to fall in love or spread their wings and fly And all that we can do is wonder why What could have we done different? With whom can we find fault? What can we do to bring this vicious cycle to a halt? Each expert on the evening news has an viewpoint of his own And each forgets the families left alone And you can say we should get rid of all the violence on TV
I wrote this the morning after the Littleton, CO, school shootings, in an attempt to make some sort of sense of it all. It's primarily a reaction to the talking heads and pundits who were all saying 'Well, of course, this happened because...' and proceding to try and tie this tragedy to whatever their pet theory about "What's Wrong With The World Today, Especially These Kids" happened to be. The thing the media always loses track of is that these are, at heart, not national tragedies -- they're human tragedies...whatever the societal implications, there are families who are missing their loved ones tonight. This song never did help me find any answers. It raised a lot of questions though. I never perform this song.
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