Muster - Indigo Girls

All of the daddies were weathered

All of the mommas were torn

Still the whole village came in their finest to see

What could possibly be born

Out of a house divided, in a world so brutal and maimed

But then we saw the kids and found ourselves saying

We’re gonna make it up to you

Every day of our life

We’re gonna make it up

We’re gonna get this right

Some people held their daddy’s guns

Me, I hung mine on the wall

For every war, we could have won

Without shooting them at all

Is this the best we could muster?

Custer or just prayers for the slain

I wanna get this right and not the same old thing

I wanna make this up to you

Every day of my life

I wanna make this up

I wanna get this right

Born of privilege, born of none

Hunger, disease, it’s all a gun

Clean your plate kid, I want you to understand

The isolation we breed, the hunger in Yemen

It’s your first lock down, you’re so young

But so are the kids under the barrel bombs

It’s the evil we helped let loose, it’s what we’ve become

It’s all a gun, it’s all a gun

I don’t know where we come from, what I know is that we ain’t done

We got the river running, we got the animal cunning

The back of a turtle, the Garden of Eden, the cosmic dust

Why do we keep on gunning?

I got no use for these ramparts, ivory towers or the lines in the sand

I think enough of the time, we want the same thing

We gonna make it up to you

Every day of our lives

We wanna make it up

We wanna get this right