Brendan O'Hara - Shot in the Dark

You read it in the paper
And Seen it on the news
Young American Men
Getting Real Abused
Walking home From
Anywhere... after the sun goes down
(When the Sun) Goes Down

Don't take more than a hoodie
Or a Black. Back. Pack
An officer off duty wants to give young man Slack
When i was a young man, I wanted to give that back
But These Day's They're too quick with a gun
(When the sun goes down)
In their own own damn town

(Don't make no sense to me)

Oh say Can you see? they were both in uniform
Sure the young man wore it baggy but that's just the way it's worn
And this is where sadly the fabric of years and years of scorn
That uniform sends A young innocent Man back to the place where he was born
When the sun goes down
In his own damn town

The tattered sleeve of life so precious and Easily torn
When things are torn you know they, they fall apart
Can you Hear that broken heart?
Mommas got nothing left but broken glass and shattered shards
When the sun goes down
All it took was one bad look and a shot shot shot in the dark

American dream
Outlined in chalk
Dead on arrival
Watch where you walk
Ameri-Con scheme
Outlined in Chalk
Dead on arrival watch how you talk
American dream
Outlined in chalk
Dead on arrival
Watch where you walk

No light for Justice
Not even a spark
Another summer night
Another night and a Shot in the Dark
Oh a Shot in the dark

Written by:
James O'Hara

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