Your Mouth's On The Trigger

Bang, bang, your mouth’s on the trigger

Bang, bang, the war’s getting bigger

Bang, bang, he said, she said, they said

Bang, bang, we all will bleed red

Tongues spouting how everybody should live

Love being shamed by words that won’t give

Any space for difference, any space for deliverance

From anger growing bullies shouting ignorance

Bang, bang, your mouth’s on the trigger

Bang, bang, the war’s getting bigger

Bang, bang, he said, she said, they said

Bang, bang, we all will bleed red

Everybody’s shouting about rights

Baiting tongues for a fight

That everybody will lose if peace can’t win

A truce for compromise to begin

Bang, bang your mouth’s on the trigger

Bang, bang, the war’s getting bigger

Bang, bang, he said, she said, they said

Bang, bang, we all will bleed red

 ©Susie Clevenger 2015

 At Real Toads Fireblossom prompted us to write a song, but since there (in most cases?) isn't any music for our lyrics she wanted us to share the song or genre that inspired it. I was listening to the Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter and a slight change in the lyrics kept playing in my head. 

War, children, it's just a shot away

It's just a shot away

War, children, it's just a shot away

I sang it this way:

War, children, it's just a shout away

It's just a shout away

War, children, it's just a shout away

The first bullet in any war shoots first from the lip. You can't sing what I wrote to the music of Gimme Shelter. My pen wasn't able to make that leap. :)

Fireblossom Friday ~ Sing it, Toads