[Verse 1] We watched your candles One by one Turn into searchlights on your own You swore you’d never bow again Now every street has iron thrones [Pre-Chorus] We hear your slogans through the static See barbed wire wrapped in bunting Old cousin How did it come to this All your doors Now locked and hunting [Chorus] This isn’t the America we were promised Not the rebel Not the dream we signed You broke from our crown just to build your cages Traded tea for tears and state-approved lies This isn’t the America we were promised From across the sea We recognise the signs [Verse 2] You used to laugh at our old kings At powdered wigs and trembling hands Now suited idols read your fate From bright glass thrones and fenced-off lands [Pre-Chorus] We count your flags at every corner Each one stitched with someone missing You chant of freedom over sirens While every camera keeps on listing [Chorus] [Bridge] We’d send you back our dusty warnings Scrawled in margins Stained and torn “Empires fall from inside out When they forget why they were born” But you call that foreign meddling So we stand here on the shore Watching you crown your thunder As you shut another door [Chorus]
