Without A Shot Lyrics - Life, Death, Love And Freedo - John Mellencamp

Put your guns out on the table 

Throw your bullets on the floor 

This weary old house can't take it anymore 

From the ovens in the kitchen 

To the chains out in the dirt 

Rope hanging in the bedroom 

That's some of our dirty work 

The distant sleeping shadows 

That lie out in the yard 

The wind that distorts the meanings 

Of who we really are 

Saluting of ourselves 

As we pass by our mirrors 

This show of phony adulation 

Just masquerades all our fears 

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So we open up our eyes at midnight 

See the setting of the sun 

Foundation is crumbling 

The inner structure's gone 

Used up by corruption 

And the passage of time 

We hope we've got some fight left 

Cause our children 

Our children are dying 

So we think that forgiveness 

Is a God given right 

And equality for all 

Is just a waste of our time 

With our nickel plated Jesus 

Chained around are necks 

Handing out verses of scripture 

Like we wrote it down ourselves 

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Respect that we once had 

Went up the water spout 

Tried to keep it secret 

But the secret was found out 

Got to thinking high and mighty 

Like everything was a lock 

Some now say this house 

Can be taken without a shot 

So the hole gets dug deeper 

With every wedding bell 

And we sell each other down the road 

Until there's nothing left to sell 

And slowly but surely 

We disappear without a trace 

We point our fingers at each other 

And say what the hell happened to this place 

Without a shot 

Without a shot 

Without a shot