[Intro] (Detuned acoustic guitar, fingerpicked, slow and warm. Like a porch at sunset. Single hum, almost a hymn.) [Verse 1] I wake up every morning and I thank the Lord above For the red, the white, the blue, and the people that I love Got my boots on the ground and my heart on my sleeve This is the greatest country that you'd ever believe But it's getting kinda hard out here With everybody telling me I shouldn't cheer Got college kids with their signs and their feelings Telling me the flag don't mean what it means But I know what it means [Chorus] And I won't kneel, I won't bow I'm a good American and I'm standing now This flag still flies and my heart still beats For the home of the brave and the land of the free I'm still standing I'm still standing God bless this country and the people who still believe [Verse 2] My granddaddy fought and his granddaddy too For the right to stand up and the right to be true Now they wanna rewrite all the history books Tell me I should be ashamed of the way that it looks But I look around and I see what I see The freest country that there'll ever be They kneel at the game and they cancel the past But this is still the home of the brave And I'm brave [Chorus] And I won't kneel, I won't bow I'm a good American and I'm standing now This flag still flies and my heart still beats For the home of the brave and the land of the free I'm still standing I'm still standing God bless this country and the people who still believe [Verse 3] They tell me my words are a weapon somehow That loving this land is a problem right now They change all the names and they take down the signs Say the way that I'm living is out of its time But I've got a family, I've got a name I've got a history that I won't let them shame I work with my hands and I pray when I can And I won't let a stranger tell me who I am [Chorus] And I won't kneel, I won't bow I'm a good American and I'm standing now This flag still flies and my heart still beats For the home of the brave and the land of the free I'm still standing I'm still standing God bless this country and the people who still believe [Bridge] Maybe I'm stubborn, maybe I'm wrong But this is the place where my heart belongs You can have your protests, you can have your rage I'll take the flag on my porch and the prayers on my page I'll take the small town and the Fourth of July The fireworks cracking across the night sky You can call me old-fashioned, you can call me a fool But I know what I know and I stand by the truth [Chorus] And I won't kneel, I won't bow I'm a good American and I'm standing now This flag still flies and my heart still beats For the home of the brave and the land of the free I'm still standing I'm still standing God bless this country and the people who still believe [Outro] Yeah, I'm still standing Lord knows I'm still standing God bless this country And God bless the people who still believe (Guitar rings out, one last warm strum, slightly detuned, fading into the evening.)
