Remy–How to React to Tragedy
Advice for how to deal with a national tragedy.
Remy has advice for how to deal with a national tragedy.
About 2 minutes
Written and performed by Remy. Video and graphics by Austin Bragg. Music tracks by Ben Karlstrom.
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LYRICS:
I overheard it on the street
A mass tragedy'd occurred
I didn't know how to react
I had to know the latest word
If it had been a hijacked airplane
My resolve it would be steeled
Another Ryder Truck explosion
And I'd pray all would be healed
Or an extremist with a knife
I would go out and donate blood
But I knew just what I should do
When I saw that they'd used a gun
I got on Facebook, status update
Started typing like the breeze
Cuz it's the perfect chance to
Advance my political beliefs
Yes in the face of acts of terror
I won't be dyed in the wool
Unless the weapon had a
Tiny little metal thing you pull
Cuz there's no time to come together
Express sorrow for the sad
When people have a right to own something
I don't want them to have
So if a crime scene's still roped off
We could unify in sorrow
Or ask was it with a gun
And in a place not called Chicago
You could plug all your beliefs
Until your face is turning red
Or you could also just respond the way
You would have if instead
it was a plane, a bomb, a Ryder truck
A vest, or with a knife
if they were drowned, or hung
Or thrown from buildings, buried/burned alive
If they were kidnapped by the hundreds
Sold to slavery with vigor
I'd respond with unity but if
The weapon had a trigger I would–
I overheard it on the street
A mass tragedy'd ensued
When I saw it was an immigrant
I knew what i should do…