REACHING OUT
	by Jason Lustig (1/21/2000)

(verse)
Don't shoot, if you've been taught to respect human life
and your parents have held your hand and watched as you cried
An entire country's wrapped up in arms and disarray
and they stare at the television wishing they could pray

(chorus)
for a better life
Children running free through fields
hunted like dogs for problems you've caused
you make it their fault when they fail your game
but your using old rules, this is a new day

and no one thought to reach out
no one thought to reach out

(verse)
Don't shoot, from the hip of apathy
as if no one is changing shape or form just because you don't see
it being the right direction as you fly south for warmth
others still live in boxes and you think they have a choice

(chorus)

(JAM)

(verse)
Don't shoot just because you've seen this scene before
and you're certain its a citizens right to protect himself with force
He was just a kid with a candy bar reaching for his wallet
Now his future's red all over the floor of a local market

(chorus)
what about his better life
children running...

...to reach out
(ending)
to our children
to our children
no one thought to reach out
and teach out, all they do is preach out
and they're not listening to our children
No one thought to rach out to our children...

(JAM)


copyright © 2000 Jason Lustig