The Long Way Around - Brandon Jenner

I don’t know what to say about these days

People, they are changing in the strangest ways

Even in the richer neighborhoods

People don’t know when they’ve got it good

They’ve got the envy and they’ve got it bad

When I was a kid everything I did was trying to be free

Running up and down tinsel town with a fire inside of me

My planets all in retrograde and the best of all my plans got laid

I had my breaks, made mistakes

But just not the ones people think I made

And I’m a long way gone

Down this road I’m traveling on

It’s gonna take me where I’m bound

But it’s the long way around

It’s so hard keeping track of what’s gone wrong

The covenant unravels and the news keeps rolling on

I can feel my memory letting go four or five disasters ago

It’s hard to say what did more — ill citizens, united or the gulf oil spill

And I’m a long way gone

Down this road I’m traveling on

It’s gonna take me where I’m bound

But it’s the long way around

It’s never been that hard to buy a gun

But now they’ll sell a Glock 19 to just about anyone

All the seeds of tragedy are there

In what we feel we have the right to bear

To watch our children come to harm

There in the safety of our arms

With all we disagree about

Our passions burn the heart goes out

And we’re a long way gone

Down this road we’re traveling on

It’s gonna take us where we’re bound

But it’s the long way around