'Merican

We flipped the finger to the King of England

Then stole our country from the Indians

With God on our side and guns in our hands

We took it for our own

Built a nation dedicated to liberty,

Justice, and equality

Does it look that way to you? It doesn’t look that way to me

It’s the sickest joke I know

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

I'm just another stupid American

But you don’t want to listen, you don’t want to understand

Just 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 the land of the slaves, and the Klu Klux Klan,

The Haymarket Riot, and the Great Depression

Joe McCarthy, Viet Nam

It’s the sickest joke I know

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

I'm just another stupid American

But you don’t want to listen, you don’t want to understand

Just finish up your drink and go home

I'm proud and ashamed, every 4th of July

You’ve got to know the truth before you say that you’ve got pride

Now the cops got tanks ‘cause the kids got guns

Shrinks pushing pills on everyone

Cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun

Straight to Hell we go

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

I'm just another stupid American

But you don’t want to listen, you don’t want to understand

Just finish up your drink and go home

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

I'm just another stupid American

But you don’t want to listen, you don’t want to understand

Just finish up your drink

And go home