America the Beautiful

by Kenny Hoffman

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Welcome to America
the land that I do love
I stand beside and guide her
lifeless body through the mud
and through the night and without light
that's shining from above
through prairies and through mountainsides, she rots

America! America!
God damn thine every flaw
Confirm thy soul hath lost control
No liberty in law
O beautiful for brainwashed fools
in genocidal strife
whose self they loved and murder more than life

Welcome to America
We're still waiting
for emancipation.
We are still a colony

O beautiful, surveillant skies
for deadly fields of grain
for tales of untold travesties
above a burning plain
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
whose hideous intent
beat a thoroughfare of bodies to the west

Welcome to America
may God thy oil burn
Thy cremate lady liberty
and spit into the urn
Thy selfish gain hath left a stain
on the banner of the damned
each star and stripe sewn by a bloody hand

Welcome to America
We're still waiting
for emancipation
from the great society

America! America!
The freedom bells are cracking
America, you've let me down
from sea to boiling sea

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released July 18, 2015

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