"Your Backyard"

Released December 14, 2016 on the 4th Anniversary of the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary School Shootings in Newtown, Connecticut.

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Your Backyard
Written by Amy Edwards
Produced by David Butler
Matchbox Studios, Austin, TX
From EP "Little Birds" Jan 13, 2017

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Video was filmed in Austin, TX
Produced & Directed by Joshua Piper
All additional footage from Everytown for Gun Safety

News from 1981 Harker Heights Elementary School shooting (referenced in the song) can be found here:
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LYRICS:
Leaves were blowing down the street
I went to the usual spot where we’d meet
There she came eyes big she skipped and said
We had a drill today and tilted her little head
Oh I remember filing out one by one
She said no mama, it’s if somebody comes in with a gun

And it struck me hard and I felt the tears starting to burn
Pulled her to me, wondered, will we ever learn

Why does it have to be in your backyard
Why is it only real when it hits home, so hard
Why does our history have to repeat
For it to really mean something to you
And me

Holding hands strolling home remembering a day
Thirty years before when this came my way
He shot her at the flagpole, got shot himself
Us little ones confused and sheltered from this hell
My heart breaks cause nothing’s really changed
It’s elementary my dear, your own personal shooting range

Sick to ask but I had to know
Tell me, how did this thing go
We sat in a circle on the rug she reports
Be real quiet and our teacher locks the door
I wanna collapse and cry picturing those little faces
Please god make this end, no more, no shots, no places

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