Brian & Blake - The Wish lyrics

rate me

I was with the 42nd back in 1943,

I've fought for freedom on the shores of every sea,

But nowadays it's different all I feel is shame,

People dying everyday and I'm the one they blame

I wish I was a swingset in some little kid's backyard,

A tractor in a field or a bumber on a car,

I wish I was something that couldn't hurt no one,

Of all the things I could have been, I had to be a gun

They hide me in their lockers in the high school halls,

I hand out on the corners I've broken every law,

I've laid there in the court rooms tagged exhibit B,

Watched them go away in chains while I go back to the streets

I wish I was a swingset in some little kid's backyard,

A tractor in a field or a bumber on a car,

I wish I was something that couldn't hurt no one,

Of all the things I could have been, I had to be a gun

Undearneath a sweater hidden on a closet shelf,

His tiny hands reached for me but I couldn't scream for help

I wish I was a swingset in some little kid's backyard,

A tractor in a field or a bumber on a car,

I wish I was something that couldn't hurt no one,

Of all the things I could have been, I had to be a gun