You don’t understand, you don’t understand
When you take a life, you are taking mine
You don’t understand, you don’t understand
What we’ve been growing with patience and love has fallen apart
A normal day, everything seems all right
A thirteen year old, with a gun in his hand
He left for school, waving goodbye
Not knowing that now, there is no way back.
All that was given, he will take it away
He doesn’t even care, there are more to blame.
Then shoots a poor girl, that was running late
She falls and she bleeds, with no time to flea. You don’t understand, you don’t understand
When you take a life, you are taking mine
You don’t understand, you don’t understand
What we’ve been growing with patience and love has fallen apart
The feeling of pain, never felt it before
I know it’s not easy, that there isn’t a cure.
Stop looking away, Quit turning around
Silence and Violence would sure turn you down.
You don’t understand, you don’t understand
When you take a life, you are taking mine
You don’t understand, you don’t understand
What we’ve been growing with patience and love has fallen apart