Marion Halliday (Songwriter; Electric Guitar, Lead Vocals), Peter Farrell (Keys), Jim Salamone (2d Electric Guitar), Todd MeCaughey (Bass), Meghan Cary and Lisa Jeanette (Backing Vocals)-Written a couple weeks after the mass school shooting at Stoneman Douglas, and for a benefit Marion and the Band played in Kentucky to raise money for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense
Lyrics
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
V1-
Another day, another headline.
Another school, more children have died.
Just one more, like the last.
Just one more, they come too fast.
Thoughts and prayer, don't mean a thing.
Thoughts and prayers, won't lead to change.
Thoughts and prayers-its just a game.
V2-
Another day, but the story's the same.
Another school, a new list of names.
More victims to demonize,
same narrative cloaked in lies, their lies…
BR-
Thoughts for the children who want to live,
And prayers that they forgive
all the ways we've let them down;
And pray, pray for change
. . .to the laws that keep us safe;
. . . to the people we elect;
. . . to the hearts of those who lead;
. . . to the companies that make us bleed.