Author: Shelton Bumgarner

No one cares about anything I write, but I find writing song lyrics every once in a while relaxing. So, this would be a Radiohead type song but with very pointed and bang-you-over-the-head anti-gun lyrics. The lyrics are about how maybe, just maybe, things have changed because of the efforts of the Parkland children. We can only hope.

And A Child Shall Lead Them
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

in a crisis I don’t act
I plan my counter attack
adults act like children
playing their petty, petty games
paid for in the blood of innocents
all we can hope for is the truth
laid out in the good book

and a child shall lead them
is what they say
and a child shall lead them
we can only pray

they NRA claims the legacy press
lusts for more blood for its ink
we all know that’s bullshit
something we can call
like a cat in heat
on a hot summer day
in the end all that’s left
is what the good book says

and a child shall lead them
is what they say
and a child shall lead them
we can only pray

[bridge]
we’re all going to fight
unite, unite, unite
until things change
we won’t complain

and a child shall lead them
is what they say
and a child shall lead them
we can only pray

This would be an angry woke Kanye West kind of rap song that was dancable and pop enough you might hear it on the radio. Maybe. I am just very unhappy with how completely oblivious pop music has been to the complete disaster Trump has been politically. I mean, get with the program people.

We Own The Street
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
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come for Mueller
you come for us
come for Mueller, Trump
you’re going to get a fuss

they’re coming for Mueller
don’t you know
sooner rather than later
Trump is going to lose it
he’s going to fire Mueller
what are we going to do
I say we throw down
have a people’s impeachment
take to the streets
until that bitch comes down

we own the streets
we own the streets
we own the streets

when that clown is out of power
the tweets will stop
we can stop the rot
lumps in my throat
at the idea of how many rules
we’re going to break
when we crash through the gates
I’m no loon to say
if we take to the streets
week after week
the powers that be will be weak

we own the streets
we own the streets
we own the streets

[bridge]
we’re going to take to the streets
not until we tear Trump from the Oval
the people will speak up
break the back of the deplorables
soon enough they’ll be through

we own the streets
we own the streets
we own the streets

Let me state for the record that I know none of these lyrics I’m writing will ever be performed. I don’t know anything about music, I just like writing stories in verse. These lyrics are just so obvious that I’m sure they may have already been done by a late night show and I just don’t know about it. But these aren’t meant to be funny, though they probably will come off as that simply because they’re riffing off a similar song by Three Dog Night.

Mueller’s Coming
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
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Mueller’s coming Trump
Mueller’s coming Jared
Mueller’s coming Ivanka
you better hide your documents

Trump you better hide your documents
Mueller’s coming
Mueller’s coming
Trump you better hide your documents
Trump you better hide your docuents

Mueller’s coming
hide, hide, hide, hide
hide your documents Trump
Mueller’s coming
you better hide those documents

you’re never going to get away
get away from the long arm of the law
Mueller has your number Trump
he’s on your trail
he’s going to track down your crimes

Mueller’s coming Trump
Mueller’s coming Jared
Mueller’s coming Ivanka
you better hide your documents

[bridge]
Trump the big house is coming for you
Mueller’s on his way
you’ll soon be through

Mueller’s coming Trump
Mueller’s coming Jared
Mueller’s coming Ivanka
you better hide your documents

This is meant to be a peppy pop song you might hear on the radio. At least, that’s my vision for the music associated with it.

Dear Melania
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
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dear Melania
he’s using you it’s obvious to see
dump him quick as can be please
your friends are all moochers
using you, using him
I’ve got some advice for you

tell them please
you’re more than they bargained for
you’re more than they bargained for
you’re more than they bargained for

imagine the look on his face
when you tell him with all your grace
that it’s over and you’re taking Barron forthwith
you’ve got it in you I know
to end this charade once and for all

it might be the last straw
if he lost his fire lady once and for all
things have been stormy between you two
he treats you like a dog
why are you still with him we all want to know
drop him like a hot brick
real quick, real quick

tell the powers that be
tell them please
you’re more than they bargained for
you’re more than they bargained for
you’re more than they bargained for

[bridge]
we’re all waiting to see
if you’ve got the guts to break free
he’ll beg and plead for you to stay
but you’ve got to ditch him now

dear Melania
hear my plea
dear Melania
listen to me
listen to me
listen to me

This would be a really hard rocking pop song. Something that, say, The White Stripes might perform. That’s my vision for it at least.

Enjoy
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
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enjoy the humming economy they tell me
enjoy the wasted youth shot down with a gun
enjoy the dismay that the powers that be
are out to get you and me
just sit back and get laid
enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy

enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy
enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy
enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy

enjoy the rape of the environment
enjoy the misogyny in the name of God
enjoy the racism in the White House
that’s what we got right now
enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy

enjoy the lack of leadership
enjoy your vote and voice not meaning shit
enjoy the NRA calling for violence on your TV
enjoy the Russians having us by the throat
enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy

enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy
enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy
enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy

[bridge]
we’re all in this together
we need to act like it I fret
nothing will change if we just enjoy
the humming economy

we have to take a stand
we have to fight in the rain
I’m going to enjoy when the era is over
and freedom is won
enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy
enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy

This is meant to be a pop-rock ballad like Pulp’s Common People. That’s the goal, at least. Something rocking that tells a story, in this instance something political.

Russian Collusion
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
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the year was 2016 and we thought
that Hillary Clinton was a sure shot
then things began to go haywire
with emails, emails, emails, emails
Trump told us all with great gaul
that he wanted the Russians to release
all of Clinton’s lost emails
but the evidence shows much more
Trump wanted to win no matter what
so he broke the law

I’m talking about
Russian collusion
Russian collusion
Russian collusion
we all it’s real
we all see it happened

it’s all something we know is true
how else do you explain how Trump divides us so
by now we all know it by rote
we need to see the truth
the facts are a big discrace
the sooner we see the facts
the sooner we can fix this problem
we can scream and shout all we want
but the Russian are complicit in this mess
so it all makes me want to hiss

I’m talking about
Russian collusion
Russian collusion
Russian collusion
we all it’s real
we all see it happened

[bridge]
we’re all going to have to fight
fight for what is right
we can let’em get us down
things will get better if we vote, vote, vote

we need to lace up our shoes
get ready to protest in the streets
when Mueller releases the deets
when Mueller releases the deets
when Mueller releases the deets