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( Gun song lyrics )
RAINING FIRE FROM HEAVEN
Copyright © 2001 - mickterry.com

1: Now, thirteen years is a very short life
in anybody's book.
Shamira always questioned why,
always took a second look.
Her questions got her more answers
and much better grades at school.
Her one night out to celebrate,
and she winds up laid out cold.

CHORUS:
It was raining fire from heaven
at midnight New Year's Eve.
Of several bullets fired in fun,
one left someone to be grieved.
It was raining fire from heaven
when death dropped from the sky.
It's way too late; the damage is done:
Too late for lullabies.

2: Miguel was just under twenty-two years
and had a decent job.
Perhaps, had he been an engineer,
maybe he'd have never shot
five bullets into the ozone
that just had to come back down.
One found the top of Shamira's head
& it took her to the ground.
CHORUS:

BRIDGE:
She got in the way of a bullet.
She wasn't supposed to be there.
She got in the way of a bullet.
Who said life's supposed to be fair?
Who said there's supposed to be justice?
Who knows when the end of life comes?
She got in the way of a bullet.
She got in the way of a gun.

3: The flowers came from across the U.S.
and Puerto Rico, too.
Shamira's body wore her Sunday best,
though it never could be viewed.
Miguel would never consider his fun
might just take a life:
an innocent in a drive-by,
he would lose his the next night.
CHORUS:

Copyright © 2001  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
[ Reprinted here by permission of the composer-lyricist ]   BMI
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( based on recurring true events )

To other New Year's song lyrics:   ONE MORE DAMNED RESOLUTION
SO HERE WE ARE AT NEW YEAR'S
To other police song lyrics:   IT'S JUST A JOB
To other crime song lyrics:   FORTY BIBLES
To other gun song lyrics:   BODY COUNT
DON'T SHOOT ME
HEY, IT'S NOT ME
THE INNOCENT TOY
AS NATURAL AS AN UZI
KINGDOM OF THE GUN
IT'S SHOW TIME, FOLKS!
GO OFF & KILL SOMEONE
EDDIE, GET OFF THE DAMN PHONE
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