Deadly Things

© 2003 Garrett Clevenger

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Richard Reid’s gonna sleep in prison tonight
for wearing a shoe bomb he tried to light
aboard a jumbo jet flying across the sea
hoping to blow it all to smithereens.

Flight 63 would not be the first plane
to explode with all it passengers into flames.
But fortunately that tragedy didn’t occur.
This time.

A G E        If a man can carry a bomb on to a plane
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A D G E    to light the fuse all he needs is an open flame.

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Since a man can crash a plane with boxcutters in his hand
or fingernail clippers or a single knitting needle
it makes sense to not be allowed to bring them on a plane.
along with guns and other deadly things.

Terrorists can wreak havoc in may ways.
It’s not something someone likes to ponder on.
How many terrorists does it take to blow up a plane?
One, if he’s got a flame, a fuse and a bomb.

A G E        Richard almost blew that plane out of the sky
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A D G E    with a match that is still allowed on American flights.

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So if someone tried to light a bomb upon a plane,
don’t you think someone else will try the same?
It makes no sense to let lighters and matches on flights
when bombs seem so much worse than pocket knives.

A G E        Whoever writes the rules to restrict what’s allowed on aircraft
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A D G E    does not seem too concerned with actual terror threats.
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A D G E    It seems they care more about money than public safety.

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So now the public is stressed out even more
and those who smoke will want to even more.
But if they didn’t have their lighters after getting off the jet
they wouldn’t smoke as many cigarettes.

The next time you are in Washington
to see our elected officials hard at work
don’t get in the way of the tobacco lobby clan
who insured that smokers would have their lighters in hand

A G E        to light their cancer sticks and suck the same.
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A D G E    Hopefully it’s only them and not some gas on the plane.

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It makes you wonder who the evil-doers really are.
For anyone who would except tobacco’s dirty checks
in exchange for weakening what’s restricted on our planes
will wear the blood and guts that’ll dump like rain

A G E        when the next shoe bomber is able to light
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A D G E    the fuse with a lighter that is still allowed on your flight.

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These are the deadly things, coming down. x4
In corruption town.
In Washington.