Just Another Day
After the horrendous Parklands shootings in America in February 2018 I saw a post on Facebook from a friend of mine who has two children at school out there and she simply wrote “My God, that’s not too far from where I live”.
Having your children go to school: which should be a safe environment, and having you worst fears realised must absolutely be the most horrible feeling you can imagine.
Lyrics
Just another day
Saturday morning
Just another day
I’ll do the laundry
Call into Casey’s store along the way
And the sky is blue
Caught sight of your photograph
On the mantelpiece
I promised myself to take it down but I guess I’m just far too weak and angry
And the sky is still blue
And I don’t know if I can
ever feel like a man
I just know how I feel about it
I just know what I want to say
But it won’t bring you back again
See the hands on the clock moving
Hear the sound of it ticking away
But time means nothing much to me each day
Wednesday morning
I sent you off to school
You kissed my cheek to say goodbye
We said we’d go for a little walk late afternoon
Because the sky was so blue
And I know this world’s ain’t no good
When the dollar means more than the sight of blood
There’s a man on the TV crying
And he’s standing next to me
And some other guy on channel 5 worried about his gun liberties
I just know how I feel about it
I just know what I should say
But it won’t make no difference anyway
I just know how I feel about it
I just know what I want to say
But it won’t bring you back again
The sky is blue and the neighbours are walking
To join the 4th July parade
But to me it’s just another day
(Written by John Jenkins)
