Video Brings Art And Activism Together As It Addresses The Topic Of Gun Control

Madonna today unveiled a powerful video for “God Control” from her new album Madame X. Directed by frequent Madonna video collaborator Jonas Åkerlund, the visually-arresting video unites art and activism as it addresses the important topic of gun control.

“God Control,” produced by Madonna and Mirwais, evokes the heady sound of the disco era, juxtaposing the unbridled freedom of dancing in a club with the brutal and silencing violence wrought by an intruder brandishing a gun. The song features cascading strings of disco music from the late seventies, when Madonna first moved to NY and went to Studio 54, with potent lyrics that urgently demand gun control and safety and the need to wake up and continue to take action.

Watch the video HERE!

Madonna says, “I want to draw attention through my platform as an artist to a problem in America that is out of control and is taking the lives of innocent people. This crisis can end if our legislators act to change the laws that fail to protect us all.”

Madonna posted on Instagram about the video and the lyrics to the song are below.

The video ends with a call-to-action to join Madonna in supporting organizations fighting for common-sense gun safety legislation and working to protect our most vulnerable, including:

Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund (@Everytown), 
March For Our Lives Foundation (@AMarch4OurLives) 
Gays Against Guns (@GAGnoguns)
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation (@sandyhook)
Human Rights Campaign Foundation (@HRC)
National LGBTQ Task Force (@TheTaskForce)
National Center for Transgender Equality (@transEquality)
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (@NCADV)
One Pulse for America (@onePULSEorg)
States United to Prevent Gun Violence (@supgvnetwork)
Marsha P. Johnson Institute (@MPJInstitute)


“God Control” Lyrics

Everybody knows the damn truth 
Our nation lied
We’ve lost respect
When we wake up
What can we do?
Get the kids ready
Take them to school
Everybody knows
They don’t have a chance
To get a decent job
To have a normal life
When they talk reforms 
It makes me laugh  
They pretend to help 
It makes me laugh
I think I understand 
Why people get a gun
I think I understand
Why we all give up
Everyday they have
A kind of victory

Blood of innocents spread everywhere
They say that we need love
But we need more than this

Choir
We lost gun control (x4)

This is your wake up call 
Unlike your nightmare 
I’m here to start your day 
This is your wake up call 
We don’t have to fall 
A new democracy 
God and pornography 
A new democracy

People think that I’m insane
The only gun is in my brain
Each new birth it gives me hope 
That’s why I don’t smoke that dope 
Insane people think I am 
Brain inside my only friend 
Hope it gives me birth each new 
That dope I don’t smoke it’s true

Everybody knows the damn truth (2x) 

Wake up 

We need to wake up, wake up, wake up... (2x) 

It’s a hustle, yeah 
It’s a hustle 
It’s a con 
It’s a hustle

It’s a weird kind of energy
A bizarre thing that happens to be 
An abnormal fraternity 
And I feel more than sympathy 

We need to wake up, wake up, wake up...

People think that I’m insane
The only gun is in my brain
Each new birth it gives me hope 
That’s why I don’t smoke that dope 
Insane people think I am 
Brain inside my only friend 
Hope it gives me birth each new 
That dope I don’t smoke it’s true 

Everybody knows the damn truth (x2) 

We need to wake up, wake up, wake up... (x2)

Wake up

A new democracy

Everybody knows the damn truth 
Our nation lied
We’ve lost respect
When we wake up
What can we do?
Get the kids ready
Take them to school
 Everybody knows
They don’t have a chance
To get a decent job
To have a normal life
 When they talk reforms It makes me laugh  
They pretend to help
 It makes me laugh

Choir
We lost gun control..... 

WAKE UP