| There’s a green plaid jacket on the back of the chair | 
| It’s like a moment frozen forever there | 
| Mom and dad had a lot of big plans for their little man | 
| So proud | 
| Mama’s gone crazy 'cause her baby’s got down | 
| By some teenage car chase war out of bounds | 
| It was the wrong place | 
| A wrong time, a wrong end of the gun, sing | 
| Shoot straight from the hip, yeah | 
| You’re all gone in a trigger slip | 
| It could have been | 
| It could have been your brother | 
| Shoot straight, shoot to kill, yeah | 
| Blame each other, well, blame yourselves | 
| You know, God is a bullet | 
| Have mercy on us everyone | 
| They’re gonna call me sir, they’ll all stop fuckin' with me Well I’m a high school grad, I’m over 5 foot 3 | 
| I’ll get a badge and a gun and I’ll join the P.D. | 
| They’ll see | 
| Didn’t want to use the gun, they put in his hand | 
| But when the guy came at him, well he panicked and ran | 
| And it’s thirty long years before they give him another chance | 
| And it’s sad | 
| Shoot straight from the hip, yeah | 
| You’re all gone in a trigger slip | 
| It could have been | 
| It could have been your brother | 
| Shoot straight, shoot to kill, yeah | 
| Blame each other, let’s blame ourselves | 
| You know, God is a bullet | 
| Have mercy on us everyone | 
| Shoot straight through the hip, yeah | 
| You’re all gone in a trigger slip | 
| It could have been | 
| It could have been your brother | 
| John Lennon, Doctor King and four innocent guys | 
| Goddamn nothin' | 
| God is a bullet, have mercy on us everyone | 
| God is a bullet, have mercy on us everyone, oh, no no |