We watched the border harden through a screen Counting pennies on the lumber, watching steel turn lean I called you blind for the name you checked Traded away our decades of respect Wrote you off as a TV show The loudest voices that we came to know [Chorus] And I’m sorry that I weaponized your flag Sorry that I held it like a rag To wipe the dirt off my own clean hands While looking down from where my border stands I blamed a nation for a single crown And I’m sorry that I let you down And I’m sorry that I let you down [Verse 2] It’s easy looking south from a taller hill To think the ignorance is something you choose to fill The daily circus and the backroom deals We forgot how a working family feels I called it corruption, I called it a game And used your address to assign the blame [Chorus] And I’m sorry that I weaponized your flag Sorry that I held it like a rag To wipe the dirt off my own clean hands While looking down from where my border stands I blamed a nation for a single crown And I’m sorry that I let you down And I’m sorry that I let you down [Bridge] It’s a cheap kind of high, looking down on a friend Waiting for a giant or an empire to end But a trade war is fought at the grocery store And everyday people pay the price for the war I bought into the anger, I painted you bad Forgetting the neighbors that we always had [Outro] The president speaks, but he speaks for himself While the friendship we had gathers dust on the shelf Look at the distance, look at the cost God, I am sorry for everything we've lost We used to be brothers. Yeah, I’m sorry
