Alice Lyrics

Down at the station last week

A man from a university

Came to teach all the deputies

About Alice

Came to teach us all about Alice

Back in the days of Columbine

We taught schools to duck and hide, kill the lights, be quiet, there's a bad guy

But now we teach em' all Alice

The data gave us Alice

I grew up here in Sheridan County district one

And we fielded nine on our football team but boy we could run

It's late September and school's in full swing

There's a chill in the air October's coming

I tell my boys down at the station don't be dumb

If you pull over a truck this time a year best assume they've got a gun

It's hunting season

In Wyoming

I remember I remember when we were boys

And Dad would take us out before class

And we'd hold guns and laugh and shoot squirrels and dirt

And I never once thought that bullets were to hurt other people

We'd leave em' unlocked in the high school parking lot all day

And my heart breaks

For Alice

My heart breaks for Alice

I woke up in a sweat at 2am

I dreamed district one had an incident

The bells were ringing and the phones blew up

And all of the neighbors came running with their guns

And I was stuck on a lead driving east on 14

And the mountains just rose and rose and I couldn't break free

And they echoed with the foot falls and the bullets and the screams

And all I could do was pray

For Alice

For Alice