Lyrics to my Favorite Songs

Make It Stop (September's Children) by Rise Against

Make It Stop (September's Children) by Rise Against

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(Woah, woah)

  Bang bang go the coffin nails

  Like a breath exhaled

  Then gone forever

  It seems like just yesterday

  How did I miss the red flags raise?

  Think back, the days we left

  We braved these bitter storms together

  But brought to his knees he cried

  But on his feet he died

  What God would damn a heart?

  And what God drove us apart?

  What God could

  Make it stop

  Let this end

  Eighteen years pushed to the ledge

  It's come to this

  A weightless step

  On the way down singing

  (Woah, woah)

  Bang bang from the closet walls

  The schoolhouse halls

  The shotgun's loaded

  Push me and I'll push back

  I'm done asking, I demand

  From a nation under God

  I feel its love like a cattle prod

  I'm born free, but still they hate (Born free)

  I'm born me, no, I can't change (Born me)

  It's always darkest just before the dawn

  So stay awake with me

  Let's prove them wrong

  Make it stop

  Let this end

  Eighteen years pushed to the ledge

  It's come to this

  A weightless step

  On the way down singing

  (Woah, woah)

  The cold river washed him away

  But how could we forget?

  The gatherings hold candles

  But not their tongues

  And too much blood has flown from the wrist

  Of the children shamed for those they chose to kiss

  Who will rise to stop the blood

  We're coming for, insisting on, a different beat, yeah

  A brand new song

  (Spoken by Tim)

  Tyler Clementi, age eighteen

  Billy Lucas, age fifteen

  Harrison Chase Brown, age fifteen

  Cody J Barker, age seventeen

  Seth Walsh, age thirteen

  Make it stop

  Make this end

  This life chose me, I'm not lost in sin

  And proud I stand of who I am

  I plan to go on living

  Make it stop

  Let this end

  All these years pushed to the ledge

  But proud I stand of who I am

  I plan to go on living

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Make It Stop (September's Children) by Rise Against