Key: G
Introduction: Em7
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In between the coats in the closet, she held on to that heart-shaped locket
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Staring at a family, flawless, but it ain't a pretty picture tonight
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Mom and daddy just won't stop it, fighting at the drop of a faucet
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Cuts through the walls, catastrophic, she's caught in the crossfire
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Puts her hands over her ears, starts talking through the tears
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She's saying, and she's praying
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I wish words were like little toy guns, no sting, no hurting no one
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Just a bang, bang, rolling off your tongue (wish words were like little toy guns)
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Yeah, no smoke, no bullets, no kick from the trigger when you pull it
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No pain, no damage done (wish words were like little toy guns)
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And just a bang, bang, rolling off your tongue (wish words were like little toy guns)
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Em
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Wish there was a white flag waving, or that they were both just faking
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And it was just a game they were playing, like shoot-'em-up cowboys
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Leave the plastic pistols in the front yard, throw away the scorecard
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And just turn off all the noise
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I wish words were like little toy guns, no sting, no hurting no one
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Just a bang, bang, rolling off your tongue (wish words were like little toy guns)
Em
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Yeah, no smoke, no bullets, no kick from the trigger when you pull it
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No pain, no damage done (wish words were like little toy guns)
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And just a bang, bang, rolling off your tongue (wish words were like little toy guns)
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Toy guns
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Oh, I wish they didn't cut like a knife, I wish they didn't break you inside
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I wish they didn't bang, bang, make you wanna run
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Yeah, like little toy guns, no sting, no hurting no one
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Just a bang, bang, rolling off your tongue (wish words were like little toy guns)
Em
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Yeah, no smoke, no bullets, no shot from the trigger when you pull it
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No pain, no damage done (wish words were like little toy guns)
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And just a bang, bang, rolling off your tongue (wish words were like little toy guns)
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Toy guns
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Em7
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Em
Oh, like little toy guns