Bang, bang, go the coffin nails
Like a breath exhaled, been gone forever
It seems just like yesterday

How did I miss the red flames?

Raise these back, the days we left

We braved these bitter storms together
Brought to his knees, he cried
But on his feet he died


What God would damn a heart?
And what God drove us apart?

What God could?

Make it stop, let this end

Eighteen years pushed to the ledge
It's come to this, a weightless step
On the way down singing


Bang, bang, from the closet walls
The schoolhouse halls, the shotgun's loaded

Push me and I'll push back
I'm done asking, I demand


From a nation under God
I feel it's love like a cattle prod
Born free but still they hate

Bore me, no, I can't change

It's always darkest just before the dawn

So stay awake with me
Let's prove them wrong


Make it stop, let this end
Eighteen years pushed to the ledge
It's come to this, a weightless step

On the way down singing

The cold river washed him away

But how could we forget?
Gathering the candles
But not their tongues


And too much blood has flown from the wrist
Of children shamed for those they chose to kiss

Who will rise to stop the blood
We're coming for, insisting on
A different beat, yeah, a brand new song


Make it stop, let this end
This life chose me, I'm not

I'll better stand, out here I am
I'll better go on living


Make it stop, let this end
Of this years pushed to the land
I'll better stand, out here I am

I'll better go on living