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As they say, “Where there’s smoke, there is fire” In this case it is certainly true For a people who once ruled so many find themselves more in place of the few For so long they have led with a vengeance but the tide has now started to turn The majority finds itself strangely, on the fringe of a party that burns They arrived from the sea with a mission Took the land and its natives by force With their muskets and weapons of killing t’was a violent beginning, of course Then they sailed overseas with their weapons for they needed a country to build There they found what they sought in another and the blood of the innocents was spilled Man-made laws justified the enslavement as they bartered for precious ‘black gold’ Never needed a currency system as the humans were bought and were sold Generations of slaves built the country all their blood soaked the land that we share As the children were ripped from their mothers they survived on their will and a prayer But the winds that bring change were upon them and the nation was soon torn in two So they fought to the death with their weapons From the blood and the ashes we grew Many more later died seeking justice slowly gaining new rights never known To these giants we owe our freedom and in time we have certainly grown But in spite of our laws and our freedoms there are many who hold onto fear As they honor their ancestors’ visions and the power they once held so dear All their talk of a government body who will come and will take guns away Truth be told it is not what they’re fearing but a country that’s changing to grey As the races are coming together the majority slowly will wane As descendants of those once in power feel the strength of minority gain In their hearts they are mourning the passing of a time which has long-ago gone And the power they had over others now a reckoning is born in the dawn So they scream out the 2nd Amendment wrap themselves up in red, white and blue But their time, like their fathers’ is ending A majority rises anew.
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