Sound of a Gun

In the here and now I wait Among the young and the old Between the moon and the ground I play With my children in my home This is for the daughters and sons Of forgotten ones Learning how to stand This is for the innocent unknowns Buried in the sand Running from the sound of a gun [Chorus] Running from the sound of a gun Til you're weary Running from the sound of a gun In the crack of the blackness I wake It's getting closer every night My city playground is a battleground Between the wrong and the right I could run free as a child I was safe and wild Naked and unarmed Now I'm grown and safe in my home But some will never stop [Chorus] The open mouth of the city Swallowed the town With that same old concrete That I still walk down And it seems they put a shine On this place when I was young But baby I just don't see it now [Chorus]