Guns to a Playground Fight

I've never lived a single day In a world without mass school shootings With Columbine in ninety-nine You'd think by now I'd be desensitized Sandy Hook when I was in seventh grade How naive was I to believe things would change (They never change) 'Cause that's the America that we live in That's the America we grew up in, don't you know? That's the America that we fight for even though They fight back at us as they chant "pro-life" Bringing their guns to a playground fight I graduated college just last week and I think about how I was lucky enough to make it all the way through With just bomb threats, and shooting drills And hearing from friends at Magruder and Great Mills And seeing it on the news, and the grief and anxiety But never the real thing No never the real thing And that's the America that we live in That's the America we grew up in, don't you know? That's the America that we fight for even though They fight back at us as they chant "pro-life" Bringing their guns to a playground fight And my friends, they never hear the end of it And I fear we'll never put an end to this How many lives of children will be lost to it? How many times? How many times? 'Cause that's the America that we live in That's the America we grew up in, don't you know? That's the America that we fight for even though They fight back at us as they chant "pro-life" Bringing their guns to a playground fight Bringing their guns to a playground fight