HOW MANY, ANYHOW, ANYHOW, HOW MANY?
Buy your bombs bombers and missiles
Buy your tanks tankers and pistols
Assault rifles machine guns
Weapons weapons weapons weapons weapons
If you have a bomb, one day you may use a bomb
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, in 1945
How many, died quickly,
What happened to those left alive?
I didn'tknowIdidn'tknowIdidn'tknow I didn't know
the gun was loaded, and I'm sooooooooo sorry my friend
I didn'tknowIdidn'tknowIdidn'tknow I didn't know
the gun was loaded, and I'll never ever do it again
If you have a gun, one day you may use a gun.
How many people die from firearms each year in this country
How many in ten years, how many in twenty?
How many in Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Rwanda,
How many how many, how many how many how many?
Hiroshima Nagasaki, New York, Detroit, Milwaukee
How many anyhow, anyhow how many?
Weapons weapons weapons weapons weapons
For foreign use, domestic use
We're wiping out the poor at home
With guns and drug abuse
Free needles are often illegal While Uzis may be sold
How many how many youngsters won't grow old
Crack cocaine crack cocaine Anybody need a clinic bed ?
A clinic or the clink, a clinic or the clink We build jails instead.
A clinic or the clink, a clinic or the clink, clink clink clink clink clunk
Guns and drugs, gangs and thugs, sink sink sink sink sunk
Our cities have gone to pieces, peace in our cities is gone,
Gone gone gone gone gun gun gun
How many, how many how many die young,
Young young young young gone gone gone gone
Our cities have gone to sleep
Weapons weapons weapons weapons wept wept weep
Weapons weapons weapons weapons wept wept weep
Cities gone to sleep, to sleep without a dream
No dream of jobs, no dream of stable families,
No route to self-esteem, no route to self-esteem.
Families rot, in our melting pot
That no longer melts, it's stewing
No cool-off pause to analyze, exactly what we're doing,
People in a pot with the lid on tight and nowhere else to go, nowhere else to go
The pot is a kettle, the kettle is a keg,
The kettle is a keg, don't we know?
The kettle is a keg keg keg, the kettle is a keg keg keg
The kettle-ettle-ettle is a keg
A pow pow pow pow powder keg, a pow pow pow pow powder keg
The kettle is a keg that'll blow
How many more weeks minutes months years?
Is there anything we can do now?
Anything, anything, there must be many things,
how many how many, how many, anyhow?
It costs five thousand dollars to educate
Or forty thousand dollars to incarcerate
One person for one year Educate or incarcerate
Support system or court system
A clinic or the clink, a clinic clinic clinic or the clink.
A city, like a forest, like a mountain, desert, prairie, is a living entity,
Is a living entity
All parts connected, like mind and heart and artery
The power to heal rooted in the DNA, rooted within
There's wisdom within, wisdom within
With power to heal, if each of us would listen
Wisdom, wisdom, beating within, wisdom, wisdom, beating within
Wisdom within every community
That could transform chaos to unity
Anyhow, anyhow, anyhow, how?
Anyhow, anyhow, anyhow, how?
listen listen listenlistenlisten, listen listen listenlistenlisten,
listen listen listenlistenlisten NOW
[Rosenblatt Gallery] [Suzanne home page] [Poems]
Copyright © 2002 Suzanne Rosenblatt. All rights reserved.
( No pathinfo hits since 28 August 2002)