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Tears Like Gasoline

by Ranchers for Peace

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Spring of 2021, still waiting out the pandemic, and warm weather ushers in a fresh Shooting Season: suddenly, "two boys in one week now have taken to the gun..." Eighteen die, mostly women, in separate incidents in Georgia and Colorado. And Ranchers for Peace, like everyone else, are left to wonder, "How long, how long?"

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TEARS LIKE GASOLINE

In two towns, two boys in one week now
Have taken to the gun
And the old song comes ’round
Why him, why her, why here
Why did they do what they have done
But no answers are found

Hmm-mm, hmm-mm hmm
Hmm-mm, hmm-mm

Sometimes young men who can’t find love
Start feeling blue and shooty
And it’s women who pay
And bystanders and officers
Who’re just trying to do their duty
When they get in the way

Soon now the candles come
And the flowers piled high
With thoughts and prayers that somehow
Never reach the sky

Hmm-mm, hmm-mm hmm
How long, how long

Could you find your Jesus anywhere
Down here in all this mess
Or your Pillars of Islam
While cops lift empty cartridges
From the blood and broken glass
And a killer calls his Mom

Soon now the candles come
And the flowers piled high
With thoughts and prayers that somehow
Never reach the sky

No, grant this time the loved ones’ prayer
That they be heard and seen
And let their voices burn the air
And their tears be gasoline
And their tears be gasoline

Hmm-mm, hmm-mm hmm
How long, how long
Hmm-mm, hmm-mm hmm
How long, how long

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released September 30, 2022
Produced by R4P
Studio O.V., Oak View CA
& Off The Pike Mic, Nashville TN

Vocals -- Ray Duncan
Guitar, Vocals, Audio Mayhem -- Charles Duncan

(c) 2021 C. M. Duncan, Wasteland Music/BMI
(p) 2022 O-V Sonic Recordings

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