the tools that take from us

from the visiting years by celebration guns

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$1 USD or more
Buy the Full Digital Album

about

this song was written shortly after the Parkland shootings in 2018. Common sense gun control and reform NOW, f the NRA.

available on cassette for the Emotive Songs For Emotional People vol. 2 compilation - realoemo.bandcamp.com/album/emotive-songs-for-emotional-people-act-2

lyrics

This is the spark we’ve been searching for
The time has come for us to expect more
Seventeen shouldn’t minimize what came before
The problem is that we have to keep score
This is the chance we’ve been waiting for
Without a change we will just lose more
Let’s break the tools that take from us
If old rules still apply
you missed the one about protecting life
Your selfish cries will facilitate our demise
All I know is I’ve been sheltered
From tools made to destroy things
And I’ll be fine without them
If my guitar was also made to poison
And people used them for this
I’d break mine in an instant
You’d give guns to everyone
And watch us all die for your freedom
I can’t wait to hear how I’ve been dumb
A snowflake and a liberal to some
But I don’t think I can reason with someone
Who’d rather lose some kids and keep their guns

credits

from the visiting years, released July 30, 2021

license

about

celebration guns Phoenix, Arizona

a pleasant and pleasurable combination of emo, twinkle, punk and math rock

Recommendations

shows

May 3

Craft and Growler

Dallas, TX
May 4

The Vanguard

Tulsa, OK
May 5

Launchpad

Albuquerque, NM

contact / help

Contact celebration guns

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

celebration guns recommends:

Celebration Guns // Twin Ponies Split
by Twin Ponies

Twin Ponies are totally our BFFs. We also did a split with them. celebration guns
go to album
The Wondergaze Split
by B.O.T.S. & Celebration Guns

Check out this split we did with B.O.T.S. from Phoenix. Great band, great guys: nothing but net. celebration guns
go to album

If you like celebration guns, you may also like:

Celebrity Therapist
by The Callous Daoboys

supported by 9 fans who also own “the tools that take from us”

The greatest album of all time Gordon Skramzy (Nathan)
go to album
Between the Richness
by Fiddlehead

supported by 7 fans who also own “the tools that take from us”

HARD AS FUCK 42_kenlet_ire
go to album
fawn
by OK Cool

The Chicago duo's third album unites their respective math rock and dream pop sounds. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 28, 2023
go to album
Calamity
by Plain Speak

Oklahoma duo Plain Speak serve up radiant power pop on their latest LP, surrounding sugar-sweet vocal harmonies with pealing chords. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 18, 2023
go to album