School Students Should Not Be Dying for Your Rights

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Flags are always at half mast these days
villians making heroes taking lives these days
just kids, being kids

Bullet proof vest I wish you the best
Middle school is always tougher than the rest
Just kids, being kids

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Under the desk
nuclear test? No
At least they had an enemy
cause you can’t dodge the draft
if you can’t make it past 18

pressed into service
give what our country needs
cause you can’t dodge the draft
if you can’t make it past 18

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blast from the past,
coat and ski mask
gun was put together
before your first day of class

you’re defending
my rights
with your life

Foreign soil’s to far
desks and blackboards
Take the place of trenches
Time to settle the score

Throw markers, pencils, and pens
Then maybe, you could stand, a chance
-

Under the desk
nuclear test? No
At least they had an enemy
cause you can’t dodge the draft
if you can’t make it past 18

pressed into service
give what our country needs
cause you can’t dodge the draft
if you can’t make it past 18

-

Couple hundred folded flags in classrooms
what else do you need to see?

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released May 12, 2019

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