From the recording Up Around The Bend (Download)
RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
(by Kim Moberg | ©2015 Kim Moberg Music ASCAP)
For the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre
and all those who suffer the effects of gun violence.
Kim Moberg: lead vocal, acoustic guitar
Jon Evans: upright bass, electric guitar, piano, harmony vocal
Matthias Bossi: drums, percussion
Chorus: Jon Evans, Catie Flynn, Kathleen Healy, Rachel Moberg, Rebecca Moberg
Lyrics
Don’t say a word
Don’t be afraid
Take hold of my hand and hide
Just like our drill
Sit quiet and still
No one will come inside
In the quiet dark she wonders
How they’ll make it out alive
Still she bravely gives them comfort
As they hear the bullets fly
ABC’s
AR-15
Confusion outside the door
They hear him walk in
“Forgive us our sins”
She whispers and then they’re gone
Too many times I’ve sat and wondered
How we let it go awry
How a law meant to protect us
Became a place for greed to hide
Our right to bear arms
Our right to bear arms
Our right to bear arms
Now is the time
We must take action (We need more than thoughts and prayers)
Raise up our voices to be heard (We need more than thoughts and prayers)
Take back the right our Fathers fought for (We need more than thoughts and prayers)
Not the right to kill
The right to live
She sits on his bed
Can’t comprehend
Her six year old baby is dead
Twenty five more
Their blood on the floor
The nightmare replays in her head
In the dark she numbly wonders
How they justify the cost
Of the profits they’re defending
And the right her son has lost
Our right to bear arms
Our right to bear arms
Our right to bear arms