Guns in hand and Fingers Crossed

I suppose it would have made more sense to post this song at the beginning of this blog, but I really don’t want to make this blog a “poetry / lyric corner” so I haven’t done so yet. I have had some questions about the title of my blog and what in the world it refers to. The blog title comes from a song played by my band, ‘Leaving Denton.’ It says a lot about my views on the state of things in the modern world and how I feel about a lot of issues and what not. You might get it. It might say absolutely nothing to you. To each their own. So here you go...

guns in hand and fingers crossed

into the dark so fast so slow
headlong into that good night we go
we can’t get there soon enough
and we’re gonna take you with us
yeah we’re not going down alone
we’ll fight the good fight again
cause we’ve been told
fighting will prove what we believe in
technology will make us faster
and help us to define the masters
as we pray to our computers
and build our better futures

into the dawn of a new day
headlong into a new yesterday
we know we’re gonna crash or else
cause history repeats itself
but we won’t go down alone
we’ll fight the good fight again
cause we’ve been told
fighting will prove what we believe in
dressed our best for this disaster
the world is spinning ever faster
we pray to gods our fathers lost
with guns in hand and fingers crossed

to each their own
we’re all in this together
to reach the throne
we’ll have to kill each other
the seeds we’ve sown
here in the morning sun
will soon be grown
and we’ll see what they’ve become

into the new world same as the old world
headlong headstrong headed for destruction
we now know what it means
to be destroyed by our dreams
but we won’t go down alone
we’ll fight the good fight again
and convince ourselves
we did it for our children
front to back all in a line
we’ll toast the past now one last time
and pray a prayer for what we lost
with guns in hand and fingers crossed