Make It Stop (September's Children)

(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 cried



What God would damn a heart?

And what God drove us apart?

What God could



(Begin Chorus)



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)



(End Chorus)



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



Chorus



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