If It Were Up to Me

[KG]

If It Were Up to Me
Words and Lyrics by:
Cheryl Wheeler

Maybe it's the movies, maybe it's the books
Maybe it's the bullets, maybe it's the real crooks
Maybe it's the drugs, maybe it's the parents
Maybe it's the colors everybody's wearin
Maybe it's the President, maybe it's the last one
Maybe it's the one before that, what he done
Maybe it's the high schools, maybe it's the teachers
Maybe it's the tattooed children in the bleachers
Maybe it's the Bible, maybe it's the lack
Maybe it's the music, maybe it's the crack
Maybe it's the hairdos, maybe it's the TV
Maybe it's the cigarettes, maybe it's the family
Maybe it's the fast food, maybe it's the news
Maybe it's divorce, maybe it's abuse
Maybe it's the lawyers, maybe it's the prisons
Maybe it's the Senators, maybe it's the system
Maybe it's the fathers, maybe it's the sons
Maybe it's the sisters, maybe it's the moms
Maybe it's the radio, maybe it's road rage
Maybe El Nino, or UV rays
Maybe it's the army, maybe it's the liquor
Maybe it's the papers, maybe the militia
Maybe it's the athletes, maybe it's the ads
Maybe it's the sports fans, maybe it's a fad
Maybe it's the magazines, maybe it's the internet
Maybe it's the lottery, maybe it's the immigrants
Maybe it's taxes, big business
Maybe it's the KKK and the skinheads
Maybe it's the communists, maybe it's the Catholics
Maybe it's the hippies, maybe it's the addicts
Maybe it's the art, maybe it's the sex
Maybe it's the homeless, maybe it's the banks
Maybe it's the clearcut, maybe it's the ozone
Maybe it's the chemicals, maybe it's the car phones
Maybe it's the fertilizer, maybe it's the nose rings
Maybe it's the end, but I know one thing.
If it were up to me, I'd take away the guns.

(P) October 1, 1997

http://www.cherylwheeler.com/songs/iiwutm.html

[GoneOffShore]

1. K & R

But you know you'd better put on your asbestos suit.

:popcorn:

[KG]

2. thanks, but i've heard it all, a hunnert times. it is to laugh.

:hi:

[GoneOffShore]

3. I'm just wondering why there aren't more comments on this

I sent the lyrics and link on to my political mailing list.

One of the comments I got back was as follows.

No shit !! When I learned that the shooter was a resident alien, here on a student visa, and with a freakin' receipt for the March purchase of the Glock-9, one of the 2 guns he used, found in his backpack, my first thought was that something has got to change, when it comes to the sick power that we give to the gun lobby in this fucked up country of ours !!!!

[Midlodemocrat]

4. Amen.

Amen.

[ET Awful]

5. Cheryl got so much flack for this song too . . . oddly, she is not really anti-gun

She's anti-guns in the hands of kids, and said so at the time.

She's also a fantastic and fun live performer.

Thanks for posting it.

[emlev]

6. Kick...

I was just about to post this and checked first, only to discover you already had.

Thanks.