[Verse 1] Windsor tarmac, freezing exhaust in the morning gray. Ambassador Bridge locked down four miles away. Decades of steel moving clean through the Detroit line, Components crossing three times by design. Now there is a thirty-five percent toll stamped upon the freight, An executive decree to seal the northern gate. Pundits on the broadcast laughing off a sovereign ground, Talking like our northern soil is something to be bound. [Pre-Chorus] You treated generations of trust like a bankrupt loan, Telling your oldest neighbor he has got no home. [Chorus] You cannot carve a neighbor into fifty-first states! (never fifty-first states) You do not buy an ally with your border gates! (with your border gates) Slapping thirty-five percent against the northern cold, Treating shared honor like a debt to be sold! You wanted a subordinate kneeling on the floor, (kneeling on the floor) Now you are standing solitary at the door! [Verse 2] From the shield of Sudbury to the Ottawa hall, We watched your emissaries lean against the wall. Demanding every ton of lithium and Arctic sound, Treating treaty borders like an open parcel ground. So we looked across the ocean, signed a broader pact, An Alliance for the Future with our sovereignty intact. You fired up the satellites, declared the trade a crime, Calling an independent friend an enemy of the time. [Pre-Chorus] When a partner stands up tall and protects his name, You call it insurrection in your boardroom game. [Chorus] You cannot carve a neighbor into fifty-first states! (never fifty-first states) You do not buy an ally with your border gates! (with your border gates) Slapping thirty-five percent against the northern cold, Treating shared honor like a debt to be sold! You wanted a subordinate kneeling on the floor, (kneeling on the floor) Now you are standing solitary at the door! [Bridge] We built the engines together, frame by bolted frame. (frame by frame) Now you brandish isolation just to shift the blame! (shift the blame) Longest peaceful line running ocean to sea, Turned into an embargo by decree! We will never bend! [Chorus] You cannot carve a neighbor into fifty-first states! (never fifty-first states) You do not buy an ally with your border gates! (with your border gates) Slapping thirty-five percent against the northern cold, Treating shared honor like a debt to be sold! You wanted a subordinate kneeling on the floor, (kneeling on the floor) Now you are standing solitary at the door! [Outro] Four thousand miles of shared water and frost. (shared water) Measure up the balance. Count the final cost. Fifty-first state. Not today. (not today) © 2026 The Shady River Bard. All rights reserved.
