Intro He shot the bullet to foreshadow intent His flesh and blood; he knew what it meant Out the door, he had a plan He gave the warnings, they’d understand It was so easy, no one bothered to ask There are no rules, nothing stopping him now There will be death and blood on the screens He’ll set the stage with an AR-15 Verse I Nineteen and two plus seventeen more Another shooting – a tally to score Sixty minutes plus fifteen more That’s all it took to shatter the core One minute and twenty-three seconds A quiet whisper and a plea for help Nobody knew in room one hundred and twelve Little children as hostages held Bridge You can’t cry, don’t you scream Just lay down and pretend you’re asleep Repeated blasts, bullets fly through the wall And now you don’t know If you’ll ever get out of here Chorus He was in there over an hour Left to kill by all those in power The screams of terror and children lie bleeding Your only solution is thinking and praying Three Hundred Seventy-Six Was there a hero who stood in their midst? Standing idle and wait for the word As children die, your excuse is absurd Verse II The scene was chaos, no order was held It wasn’t clear who gave the orders out there families cry, begging for help There was no plan, operations had failed Down the hall, bullets are fired Trading death with a handful of iron The toll is rising, so what will they do? They search for key they don’t even need Bridge 2 Down on the floor all you do is hope Close your eyes, find the strength to go on The distant footsteps heard down the hall As seconds pass at the speed of a crawl (Chorus, breakdown, fast part) It never gets better Change the rules for a dollar A life for a dime Defend the wrong side Rise of the outcry Fall on deaf ears If we paid you the money Would you care for the dead? So what’s the point Lobby the vote Blood on your hands And you don’t care (Solo) Will it ever get better? We bury our dead Cry out in pain And shock you will feign Stare at the graves With guns in your hands Each bullet that’s fired Go’s straight to the bank They all cry And you know why Still they try You don’t know why (Solo) They’ll all die And you don’t mind They’ll all die And you don’t mind You don’t mind!