We flipped our finger to the king of england
Stole our country from the indians
With god on our side and guns in our hands

We took it for our own
A nation dedicated to liberty
Justice and equality

Doesn't look that way to you
It doesn't look that way to me
The sickest joke i know


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Listen up man, i'll tell you who i am

Just another stupid american
You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand

So finish up your drink and go home

I come from the land of Ben Franklin

Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman
Otis Redding, Ellington,
The country that I love

But it's a land of the slaves and the ku klux klan
Haymarket riot and the great depression
Joe McCarthy, Vietnam

The sickest joke i know

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I'm proud and ashamed
Every fourth of july

You got to know the truth
Before you say that you got pride


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Now the cops got tanks 'cause the kids got guns

Shrinks pushin' pills on everyone
Cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun
Straight to Hell we go


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