Good Americans

American politicians have scarred our good name

There are those too scared to see the terror threat hyperbole

We’re not all blood thirsty, ignorant, flag waving government sycophants

See through the lies and corporate ties

We sing and we want our change

And ignoring the log in our eyes

Sending thousands off to die

Watch them lose their ass on page 23

Then they save their face on your TV

Got to be the good American

Got to be the good American

Questioning what they are selling me

Questioning what they are selling me

Hell bent on nation building

Governments run amuck

In the name homeland security

It’s the world wide manifest destiny

International bully with a disregard for sovereignty

I see health care shutting down

But Baghdad needs a mall downtown

How can we, how can we, how can we?

How can we find the speck in our brother’s eye

When we are the ones going blind?

Got to be the good American

Got to be the good American

Questioning what they are selling me

Questioning what they are selling me

Got to be the good American

Got to be the good American

Questioning what they have done to me

What they have done to me

How can we save anybody else when we can’t save ourselves?

How can we change anybody else when we failed to change ourselves?

How can we give away what we don’t already have anyway?

Got to be the good American

I don’t want to be no president

Got to be the good American

I don’t want to be no patriot.

We can’t waste

We can’t waste our feelings on

If they will hate or love us

We will overcome