Blue Ruin

One morning after drinking heavy in the night

Every inch of my poor bones

Seemed to ache and moan in wait

Cause all my troubles, come tomorrow

Will be gone and then it's on to Christmas dayIf Jesus had been born just eleven days before

Would the world have stopped to see

At least those on the street headed for Newtown

And of all those on their way

Could the miracle have made

One lay his guns down

Blue ruin"That trigger stole his mind, how am I to blame?"

I bet you never even aimed at one

There's too many people killing people

To put an end to evil what can be doneWell for now who'd like to tell me

On that morning when twenty-seven fell

How any lesson in counting could ever

Ever amount to watching them fall and why worst of all

Come Christmas morning they'll still be goneBlue ruin

Blue ruin

One morning after drinking heavy in the night

I stopped to take a look

At the crook that stole this holiday

Well this Christmas, my only wish is

We put these guns away

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