don't jump the gun

Watch out all you runners -- don’t jump the gun

You been making your conclusions as if you sipped some rum

Ya Know you oughta verify when the illusions come

I don’t want you to drive the wrong lane

I don’t want you to mess up the game that is playin

I hope no one hears the assumptions you’ve been saying

Watch the words that fly out

Once a story’s made it is hard to make it die out

So before ya go tellin the world

Check the facts with the source

Before ya guide em to the supposed course

The news trickles down and gets morphed

Before it reaches the bottom

A Giant’s been warfed

The story turns in verse to what it once was

It sounds extreme but generally

That’s what a rumor does.

They try to get news so hard

As if there was a famine

And any news, good or bad

Was a surplus nutrition

As if their games are empty

And someone else’s affairs can be used as ammunition.

December 26, 2003 -- Alluminum