Turn Your Cells Off, Turn Your Cells Off

Operation Hang-Up Counts Down

Melissa R. Mendelson
Hey now, all you drivers,
turn your cells off, turn your cells off.
Hey now, all you road ragers,
put your cells down, put your cells down
for you're all killers
painting our lives against the double yellow.
Slow the hell down, slow the hell down.
Watch out for children.
Keep your cells off, keep your cells off
cause you're monsters tearing up the road,
cutting me off
when there is nowhere to go.
Where is there an angel
to guard me against you
and your mad ways, your mad ways
with your cell phone in hand?
Don't you pay attention?
Don't you know that I too
just want to go home, just want to go home,
but there's darkness deep within you.
And you're pressing your foot on the gas.
You have no care for humanity,
leaving road kill behind,
but I won't fall down.
No, I won't fall back.
I'm putting my cell down, putting my cell down
because there are lives at stake.
Pay attention, pay attention,
and stop cutting me off.
There is no reason
for us to play this deadly game.
It's your life and mine, your life and mine,
so pay attention.
Keep your hands on the wheel.
You don't own this road,
so stop flashing your brights
like the spoiled child that you are
before I lose my nerve.
Hey now, hey now, hey now, hey now
Wo oh hey now, hey now, hey now, hey now
Hey now, all you drivers,
put your cells down, put your cells down.
Hey now, all you road ragers,
the cops are waiting, the cops are waiting
because you're monsters tearing up this road,
putting my life at risk, putting my life at risk.
There are no angels to protect me from you
except for the red, white, and blue,
and they will find you
when Operation Hang Up counts down.
So, put your cells down, put your cells down.
Lives are on the line.
La ill aha ill allah
Caution: Children at Play
Caution: Children at Play
Get off your damn cell phones.

OPERATION HANG-UP BEGINS APRIL 11TH.

Published by Melissa R. Mendelson

Newspaper Reporter for Long Island's Smithtown Messenger Newspaper and its sub-issues, The Brookhaven Review, The Ronkonkoma Review, and Medford News; Freelance Writer for Hudson Valley's Photo News; Movie a...  View profile

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