Hey Papa - Natasha Bedingfield

Kids and guns starting out so young

We normalize and empathize and hold our hands over our eyes

The breaking news, when I wake into

Turn it on, turn it off, pray to God one day it stops

What are we supposed to do

When everyone’s afraid of changing?

How much do we have to lose?

Isn’t all that we are worth saving?

So raise your hands and raise them high, ooh yeah

Hold them up and hold your fight, oh yeah

Hey Papa, what’s the news?

Doesn’t anybody wanna hear the truth?

Hey Papa, it’s not fair

Seems like people going down everywhere

Hey Papa, oh hey

And we try to survive, oh, we’ll live or we’ll die

And we wanna be free, but we wanna be right

When I don’t understand, I get angry sometimes

And we all want a piece of American dream

Red, white, and blue, freedom and peace

I don’t know what it means 'cause it’s far from our reach

If not for you, then all for love, ooh yeah

For everyone, forever loved, oh yeah

Hey Papa, I give up

I don’t know if I’m strong enough

Hey Papa, are you still there?

I guess I’m getting just a little scared

Hey Papa, hey, hey Papa, oh yeah

Hey Papa, hey, hey Papa

Oh whoa oh

Oh, oh, oh

Mamas mourn the loss in this world

And children pay the cost to live in this world

Hey Papa, what’s the news?

(What's the news?)

Doesn’t anybody wanna hear the truth?

Hey Papa, it’s not fair (It's not fair, it’s not fair)

Seems like people going down everywhere

Hey Papa, I give up

I don’t know if I’m strong enough (Oh)

Hey Papa, are you still there?

(Oh)

I guess I’m getting just a little scared (Oh yeah)

Hey Papa, hey, hey Papa, oh yeah

Hey Papa, hey, oh, hey Papa

I’m not going down

I’m not going down