Tomorrow Can Only Cry

Childhoods lost in a blaze as the bullets fly In grade school halls, the machine automatic took life from their innocent eyes Don't look for blame Pointing fingers won't bring them back More of the same will keep happening here and that's blood on our hands if we don't do all we can They're gone I'll never make sense of that I can't believe They're gone It all went down so fast In nightmares and dreams I hold on to our time together My heart feels broken and torn apart If today lets the innocent die, then tomorrow can only cry It was a gun, but hatred pulled the trigger And now it's done, and the guilt and the questions grow bigger and bigger and bigger I wonder why we keep building up castles of sand And still deny what we all know for certain is true The picture is black and we've stolen and scattered their crayons They're gone I'll never make sense of that I can't believe They're gone It all went down so fast In nightmares and dreams I hold on to our time together My heart feels broken and torn apart If today lets the innocent die, then tomorrow can only cry We woke late did breakfast, ate it Raced out to the school bus, made it Same old, same old every day, but this today was not the same I went home to take a call before I could I heard it all On TV kids were shot and falling to a shooter with no name Nobody, no way, no hope is left today How can I ever understand this searing pain that rips my soul away They're not coming home They're gone I'll never make sense of that I can't believe They're gone It all went down so fast In nightmares and dreams I hold on to our time together My heart feels broken and torn apart If today lets the innocent die, then tomorrow can only cry Make something happen here we've had our fill of tears What will it take for you to stand and fight it The suffering's growing large it tells us who we are Enough's enough, what will you do to right it The world can see that we're under siege and that there must be something we can do now It isn't fair, there's an empty chair in our home, and there's white crosses on the school ground It's not too late for prayer, have faith It's hard but turn your heart from hate The only way to face this pain is love Love for those who still remain Love for those we've lost today Hate won't bring them back again choose love Hold on to love I feel the pain so deep inside I never thought I'd have your eulogy to write I miss your laughter and the sound of your voice I weep in sorrow as I kneel before the alter of your toys No hope, no joy Change the laws there's a way to get through it Come across the lines and just do it cause it's time It's your job, this is not an election Don't let them rob any others protect them it's their right What rights are right What is right They're gone I'll never make sense of that I can't believe They're gone It all went down so fast In nightmares and dreams I hold on to our time together My heart feels broken and torn apart If today lets the innocent die, then tomorrow can only cry Tomorrow can only cry