Land Of The Free

They're piling bodies up on the plains

All of the strangers with so many claims and

All that hope served as a warning

Now they're falling like dominoes on a late December morning

And stack up the dead and just leave them

It proves we've got the last word in patriotism

And send the live ones to some western reservation

They've got the wrong coloured skin and ideas above their station

I'm singing holy homeland

While a nation is choking

You smile and say ;you know we said land of the free?

Yeah, well we were just joking

This land is your land

With one roll of the dice and one guiltless command

Now you're sitting watching TV

Accepting moral direction from a crank shrink with an impressive CV

Your new god is your video screen

Washed up, spun out by and American dream,

Only memories of ghosts that patrol this place

And this land, your land is a terminal case

You're singing holy homeland

While a nation is choking

You smile and say ;you know we said land of the free?

Yeah, well we were just joking

Who am I to criticise

From a country with no problems about selling one another

I guess we all have our dirty ink stains on the history books

In the pages, on the cover

And at dawn storm clouds disappear the future brings all hope and glory

Ghost dancers rise 500 years

Like there will never be another end to this story

I'm singing holy homeland

While a nation is choking

You smile and say you know we said land of the free?

Yeah, well we were just joking