Name: Next Time, Please Aim Before You Shoot
Duration: P00H03M26S
Description: Slight detour from my power-pop intentions. This is just one of those anger-spittin' songs I need to get out of my system from time to time, but I almost never have the heart to play them much after that.

Doug Davis - Next Time, Please Aim Before You Shoot

from Round 32, Week 2 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Slight detour from my power-pop intentions. This is just one of those anger-spittin' songs I need to get out of my system from time to time, but I almost never have the heart to play them much after that.

lyrics

Shot out of cannons
You’re a flame with no fire
You’ve been rattling
So long in your cage
You got addicted to the
Strains of your choir
you’re just singing
The notes on the page

But don’t you know there’s
More here than what meets your eyes
When they’re closed so tight
You put on your rage
your perfect disguise
you’ve gone blind in your own spotlight

Buckshot
scattered in space
You don’t know the damage you’ve done
Blind spots
the gaps in your grace
You can’t help but flash all your guns
Next time, please aim before you shoot

As fast as mercury
The dash to the dial
With a compass
Whose true north is skewed
There’s none so dangerous
As a prophet of bile
with a steel spine
And tired platitudes

But don’t you know there’s
More here than what meets your eyes
When they’re closed so tight
You put on your rage
your perfect disguise
you’ve gone blind in your own spotlight

Buckshot
scattered in space
You don’t know the damage you’ve done
Blind spots
the gaps in your grace
You can’t help but flash all your guns
Next time, please aim before you shoot

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from Round 32, Week 2, released May 10, 2021
LG DLE7000 dryer: Doug Davis

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