Lyrics
We said the pledge allegiance,
And wrapped ourselves up in the flag,
It seemed comfortably benign,
We were young and free,
Our fathers fought the Nazis,
And vanquished evil for all time,
We were generally progressive,
And we learned to disagree,
But boiling down below our base instincts were pretending,
To be harmless non-conformist only found at the extremes,
Yeah, it seems we didn’t learn,
And now history returns,
In a three-piece suit, upon a cross on live TV,
Do You bow to your new savior,
As he slashes and he burns,
And cuts away the dead wood from someone else’s tree,
Do you see him walk on water,
As decorum he adjourns,
Then he praises his reflection and plans his next decree,
And rattling down below, your hatred is ascending,
The last-gasp holler of your intolerant dreams,
There’s still time to save the world,
Before the battle flags unfurl,
It’s not his damn planet it belongs to you and me,
A hundred million souls who didn’t get the memo,
That hate leads to destruction, angry words, hyperbole,
I hope you weather the storm,
‘Cause as sure as you were born,
Given time, they’ll be coming for thee,
Give them time, you’ll become the enemy…