Gun Has No Trigger

Album: Swing Lo Magellan (2012)
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  • If you had looked, you might have just seen them
    Stretched in the background
    You'd see the oceans swell
    And the mountains shook

    You'd see a million colors
    If you really looked
    Now quick the night draws near
    Her curtain spreads quicker
    The safety's off

    But the gun has no trigger
    If you had looked, you'd be no one's coward
    Distance, justice, power
    You'd glimpse the password

    You wouldn't need the book
    You'd own both slave and master
    If you just had looked
    But now the banks all closed

    And nothing gets bigger
    The crowd will yell
    But the gun has no trigger
    If you had looked, you might reconsider

    Or just maybe you already have
    They watch you sleeping
    You watch their garbage cook
    You'd weep a bowl of tears
    If you had looked

    But now the gate comes down
    The pangs are growing dimmer
    You hold a gun to your head
    But the gun has no trigger Writer/s: David Donnell Longstreth
    Publisher: DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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