[Verse 1] I remember pavement, clean beneath my feet, The hum of shining chrome, down every city street. Laughter in the diners, a milkshake cold and sweet, Flags were flying proudly, a nation strong and neat. They promised a tomorrow, bright as a morning star, Before the mushroom clouds, showed us what we truly are. [Chorus] Oh, **America**, before the great divide, And **America**, where shadows softly glide. One was clean and polished, the other scarred and green, But in this ghoul's old heart, both are a sacred scene. From the glory to the rubble, a truth I now discern, This land remembers everything, a lesson we must learn. [Verse 2] Now the billboards crumble, the highways overgrown, A silent monument, to a world overthrown. The dust of countless cities, carried on the breeze, And glowing radstorms whisper, through withered, ancient trees. My skin is changed and weathered, my voice a raspy sigh, But I'm still standing in it, beneath this open sky. [Chorus] Oh, **America**, before the great divide, And **America**, where shadows softly glide. One was clean and polished, the other scarred and green, But in this ghoul's old heart, both are a sacred scene. From the glory to the rubble, a truth I now discern, This land remembers everything, a lesson we must learn. [Bridge] They call me a mutation, a relic of the blast, But I saw the old world crumble, and the new one taking fast. I breathe the same air, that freedom once proclaimed, This is my land, transformed, forever etched and named. No longer just a man, but a whisper from the past, A living, breathing memory, forever built to last. [Chorus] Oh, **America**, before the great divide, And **America**, where shadows softly glide. One was clean and polished, the other scarred and green, But in this ghoul's old heart, both are a sacred scene. From the glory to the rubble, a truth I now discern, This land remembers everything, a lesson we must learn. [Outro] Yeah, the land remembers, every single tear, Every hope and nightmare, every triumph, every fear. **America**, forever scarred, forever bold, A ghoul's long story, in the wasteland told. [Instrumental Outro] (Haunting, soulful guitar riff with fading, melancholic organ)
