← more from
Mash Down Babylon Records
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Signal Flares

from 2019 by Matt Embree

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

SIGNAL FLARES

The second amendment is wrapped in Teflon
Cause now no bill is bulletproof
Nothing but arguments on either side
Nothing has changed except the sobering truth
That even after twenty elementary school school kids
Were murdered by a child not much older than them
People cried out for policy makers to change,
But nothing really happened everything stayed the same.

Now it’s just pain and misplaced blame, bloodstains
People trying to make names with no shame
Goddammit it’s insane.
And it’s happening over and over again…
With an AR-15 or an AK-47
A MAC-10, Tech-9, 357
Could we change at all?
Oh that would never happen
No, never.

Nobody has the answer, no one knows what to do
I’m so sick of feeling helpless and feeling like a fool
Every time another kid goes and shoots up a school
Well it’s twenty four hours and it’s on to the next news
Desensitized to senseless violence
Nothing but deafening silence coming from both sides of this
With a weapon of war you cannot miss
But it ain’t our kid so we don’t do shit

And it’s still pain and misplaced blame, and bloodstains
People trying to make names with no shame
Goddammit it’s insane.
And it’s happening over and over again…
With an AR-15 or an AK-47
A MAC-10, Tech-9, 357
Could we change a thing?
Oh that would never happen
No, never.

Gritting my teeth I think,” Have we lost our minds?”
While I’m looking at blurry pictures with these tears in my eyes
And meanwhile some politicians out to make a fortune
enforcing the agendas of their greatest endorsers.
Sure enough they know what they did
When they sold their conscience to the highest bid
Hiding behind the party, pandering
But your thoughts and your prayers don’t do a damn thing

it’s still pain and misplaced blame, and bloodstains
People trying to make a name,
It’s so shameless.
Goddammit it’s insane.
And it’s happening over and over and over again…
With an AR-15 or an AK-47
A MAC-10, Tech-9, 357
Could we change at all?
Oh that would never happen
No, never.
We love our AR-15s and our AK-47s
Our MAC-10s, Tech-9s, and 357s
Could we change a thing?
Oh that would never happen
No, never.

credits

from 2019, released October 31, 2019

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Matt Embree image

Matt Embree Long Beach, California

contact / help

Contact Matt Embree

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Matt Embree, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now