Freedom for you
Penicillin, faux medicine
Oh, the joy of being American
Freedom of speech
Unless it contradicts the ideals of what you wish
Loving thy neighbor unless they are different
Collapse the women’s right to labor
Because there’s a man so sick and twisted
Minorities never have existed.
It’s a modern thing, right?
It makes me feel sick just to write.
Ban the books and ban the words
Ban thinking or speaking up.
Ban freedom of press or television
Ban the freedom of religion.
You know the government won’t care
Like the children; alive but dying.
‘Cause abortion’s murder
But school shootings and intentional starvation aren’t.
Equality for everyone, basic rights like safety, trial and bail
Who is a straight, white male.
The children dying in third-world countries are not the issue for them
It’s the boys wearing pink, so how could they think of what they don’t understand?
It’s not about protection
It’s about control.
The poor stay poor and the rich get richer
Who cares if a few thousand die?
Force them into their own mold
By a man, so white and old
Because that’s how it has always been
Oh, the joy of being American.
...You make me sick.
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