Just Another Week in America
Robert Wakefield
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It was a warm Wednesday morning, down south in Parkland Where the only news there was of the high school and its band With all its suburbs and parks, it was the safest city in Florida And it was just another week here in America That Wednesday morning, a man woke with a plan so cruel And told his friend's dad, "I don't need a ride, I ain't goin' to school" He loaded his black duffel bag with his gun that afternoon And waited for the Uber ride that'd be there for him soon Wearing the school colors, he returned to from where he'd been expelled They saw him coming but he made it to the building with the gun he held And the school resource officer was elsewhere on the campus And couldn't stop the young man from his acts of madness He opened fire past two o' clock and stalked the old hallways And the bullets began to rain into the classrooms from his blaze After he pulled the fire alarm and began his rampage On the school teachers and on children of such callow age And so, this is a song for the teacher Scott Beigel Died bringing his children back to the safety of the classroom And this is a song for Coach Aaron Feis Who died as a human shield throwing himself in front of them And this is a song for the teacher Chris Hixon And the fourteen dead students and more than a dozen injured And this is a song for all the other stories And all the other braveries from that day that will never be heard In the halls of Stoneman Douglas on that valentine's day The massacre fell upon those who couldn't make it and get away And the numbers rose of those who were injured or had died While the school officer was frozen in fear and hid outside The killer ditched the duffel bag and escaped in the crowd Then hours later in a front lawn he was finally found The red flags were there, and last month the FBI got a tip But they never acted or followed up on any of it And while Washington offers its thoughts, the blood's on their hands too For their inaction every time on the gun reform that's overdue Being owned by the NRA, they're comfortable and they thrive Cuz the millions are worth more than those few human lives When will we catch up to the other developed nations? For too long America hasn't lived up to her own expectations And today I look at the half-mast flag by my dorm complex And wonder if maybe it's my own school that will be next And so, Nikolas Cruz waits to go on trial for his heinous deed That took from the world seventeen human beings Change and justice will come, but for them it comes too late For the inaction that waited and allowed their fate And so, Nikolas Cruz waits to go on trial for his evil acts While the next mass shooter hides and plans the next And it didn't matter that it was in the safest city of Florida Because it was just another week here in America
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