Seventeen cents

What's the price of a bullet
a little piece of metal filled with lead
it only cost's seventeen cents
another hole in the head

scratch a name on every bullet
one for ever person you see
what is the price of a life
buy a tiny angel of death for a fee
seventeen cents please

i killed for respect and money
taught to shoot a little to well
this is my business, my way of life
and it will send me to hell

scratch a name on every bullet
one for ever person you see
what is the price of a life
buy a tiny angel of death for a fee
seventeen cents please

laser pointer guides my gun
strait into the head of a man
did as i was told to do
"kill as many as you can"

scratch a name on every bullet
one for ever person you see
what is the price of a life
buy a tiny angel of death for a fee
seventeen cents please

brainwashed just following the crowed
fighting for a reason I do not know
never question what i was told to do
now off to a undeclared war i go

scratch a name on every bullet
one for ever person you see
what is the price of a life
buy a tiny angel of death for a fee
seventeen cents please

fight by colors
for street corners and dollar bills
what this is stupidity
or neighbors we kill

scratch a name on every bullet
one for ever person you see
what is the price of a life
buy a tiny angel of death for a fee
seventeen cents please

a gun in the hands of a child
this is insanity
dying at a young age
world of violence and profanity

scratch a name on every bullet
one for ever person you see
what is the price of a life
buy a tiny angel of death for a fee
seventeen cents please

seventeen cents the price of a life
buying bullets in a department store
so many youths die
in the couple dollar war

scratch a name on every bullet
one for ever person you see
what is the price of a life
buy a tiny angel of death for a fee
seventeen cents please

seventeen cents
seventeen cents
how much does a bullet cost?
seventeen cents