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Children in the crosshairs

from Fake News From Nowhere by Steve White

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He doesn’t see the girls much any more since he stopped earning a wage
He doesn’t see the girls at all anymore since he had to go away
But he’s thinking about them today
And the dreadful news from the USA

Children in the crosshairs
He’s sending them his thoughts and prayers

On a threadbare sofa lit by a TV that’s always on
She’s hugs the girls tight as the news is read on BBC One
With their X-Factor dreams of being someone
What would’ve happened that night, if he’d had a gun?

Her children in the crosshairs
And other people’s thoughts and prayers

No job, no home, he spent a few nights on the streets
Well the army gives you survival skills, they give you PTSD
He remembers a fella from that first night
By a busy tube still out of sight
As the Metro headline screams

Children in the crosshairs
Send them your thoughts and prayers

She remembers her mother singing to her when she was young
And she hears the man in black as she puts the littl’un down
Singing “When I was a baby my mother told me son
Always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns
But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die…..

Children in the crosshairs
Children in the crosshairs
Children in the crosshairs
What use your thoughts and prayers?

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from Fake News From Nowhere, released March 22, 2018

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