Remy: How to React to 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...