Children at Play

from There Are Such Things by Why Bother?

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The sky was baby blue, it covered the whole town.
A cloud would pass by, it didn't wanna hang around. A premonition of what's to come. Out on the playground the kids are having fun, some kids like to scream, some kids like to run. Run away child, far far from here. There's a man who woke up this morning, his brain is baking in the sun. He is on his way to the schoolyard, and he's brought a loaded gun.
Oh mama I don't want to go to school today, I don't want to die. Oh mama I don't want to go to school today, I don't want to die. Oh mama don't let me go to school today, I don't want to die. Oh mama don't make me go to school today, I don't want to die.

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from There Are Such Things, released October 14, 2022

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