There's a green plaid jacket on the back of the chair   It's like a moment frozen forever there      Mom and dad had a lot of big plans for their little man   "...So proud."   Mama's gone crazy 'cause her baby's shot down   By some teenage car chase war out of bounds   It was the wrong place wrong time wrong end of a gun.      Shoot straight from the hip   Gone forever in a trigger slip   You know, it could have been   It could have been your brother.   Shoot straight shoot to kill   Blame each other, blame yourselves   God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone      They're gonna call me sir they'll all stop picking on me   Well I'm a high school grad I'm over 5 foot 3   I'll get a badge and a gun and I'll join the P.D.   They'll see   He didn't have to use the gun they put in his hand   But when the guy came at him, well he panicked and ran   And it's thirty long years before they give him another chance   And it's sad sad sad      John Lennon, Doctor King, Harvey Milk   all for goddamn nothing   God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone