M.i.a. Lyrics - Shadows Fall

Here's my song about gun control 

As my politics begin to roll 

Things are getting out of control 

It's time to stop, drop and rock 'n' roll 

We built and sold them the guns 

Made in America 

Glued to the tube TV before Dallas 1963 

It was assumed baby bloomers 

Bloomed doomed to ruin the country 

But who knew the children of Normandy 

Soon would resume war with Vietnamese 

Overseas, we sent eighteen year-olds to bleed 

Face it, like Oswald woke the nation 

Osama woke my generation 

Now the kids of Nintendo 

If drafted will attend the 

Bush administration family agenda 

Of bending back hands and sending children 

Attacking Iraqi lands and buildings 

So Chaney can rebuild for two hundred billion 

They'll disarm the regime but not the children 

We built and sold them the guns 

Made in America 

Sacrificing our kids lives for global crisis 

While fools of the NRA 

Watch kids shoot kids in high schools 

With tools they say kill deer 

Not fill pools of blood 

And guts, and tears and the love and trust 

We lent to the government 

That's here to protect not just guns but us 

Don't place blame on video games 

Marilyn Manson or NWA 

How can we blame them for the situation? 

When an Alzheimer's patient 

Leads the Nation Rifle Association 

We built and sold them the guns 

Made in America 

I'm a Reagan Baby 

My formative years are the 1980s 

Russian production and reduction 

Of weapons of mass destruction 

Happened already 

Even the Cuban missile crisis 

Had pictures of bombs throughout the island 

To sway bias and now we hide behind bombs 

Dropped on innocent moms 

Ignoring gun control and dropping stocks 

Senate majority leaders opposing '57 Little Rock 

While we annihilate North Korea, Iran and Iraq 

If the government shoots first 

To stimulate commerce 

Things are only going to get worse 

If the government shoots first 

We built and sold them the guns 

Made in America 

We sold them the same guns 

That are now facing back towards us 

And what do we do? 

We go over there 

But until we view here and there as the same place 

We will always be fighting another religion, another race 

There are peaceful solutions 

There are peaceful resolutions 

Peace