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So many times I hear reporters from California up to Maine

Saying how this person or that one did not die in vain...

They talk of soldiers fighting wars that no one can explain

And say we can take some solace because they did not die in vain...

A police man or woman out on duty can be mercilessly slain

And we hear how these people who keep us safe did not die in vain 

They report of firefighters battling fires in an outlying terrain

And say they were doing what they loved and did not die in vain...

Children are gunned down in an elementary school, yes it seems insane

When we’re told by some reporter that they did not die in vain...

In a movie theater, on Chicago streets...people treated with disdain

How can anyone perceive they did not die in vain...

Perhaps we look for answers in circumstances that seem arcane

Perhaps we want to think no person ever dies in vain.

But everyone leaves someone behind, friends and family remain

Who, I imagine know the ultimate truth...that people do die in vain.

For as long as people keep treating people in ways that are inhumane

No matter what the reporters say...someone will die in vain.