{"id":37,"date":"2016-10-05T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/jon-jon-the-snipers-son\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:50:00","slug":"jon-jon-the-snipers-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/jon-jon-the-snipers-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jon, the Sniper’s Son"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nJON JON THE SNIPERS SON<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel 1992 Gt. Ayton<\/span>
\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nJon Jon the snipers son<\/span><\/div>\n
\nLearned to shoot when he was young<\/span><\/div>\n
\nNo one told him that to kill was wrong.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nHe saw a film when he was eight<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWith a plot that filled his mind with hate<\/span><\/div>\n
\nFor anyone, with whom, he could not relate.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nHe viewed the world through rifle sights<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnd fired at rats on lonely nights<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSnared by the traps inside his mind.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSometimes this world\u2019s a dreadful place<\/span><\/div>\n
\nFull of hate with a sallow face<\/span><\/div>\n
\nA hangman with a swinging mace.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWe could build a better world<\/span><\/div>\n
\nA crystal ship with its flag unfurled<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSailing in the name of all mankind<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nJon Jon the snipers son<\/span><\/div>\n
\nLearned to shoot when he was young<\/span><\/div>\n
\nNo one told him that to kill was wrong.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBRIDGE \u2013 Instrumental<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nJon, it\u2019s been said before<\/span><\/div>\n
\nDreamboats founder in the ocean\u2019s roar<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThen lie forgotten on silent shores.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBut let us give it all we\u2019ve got<\/span><\/div>\n
\nOur children deserve another shot<\/span><\/div>\n
\nA New age is crying in its cot.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nJon Jon the snipers son<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWas like the trigger of his gun<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWaiting for his barrel to explode.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nJon was a snipers son<\/span><\/div>\n
\nHe shot himself when he was young<\/span><\/div>\n
\nNo one told him that the world had changed.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\n…….<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nMy musician friend Steve Ingledew composed a multi-layered track on keyboards and asked me to do some lyrics. I was reading nursery rhymes to my kids at the time and began singing Tom Tom the Piper’s Son to the track, changing the words with what was coming through the news.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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