[Intro: Martial drums into distorted chaos] [Verse 1: Bitter, observational] Twenty percent off at the mattress store For the boys who slept on foreign floors Thank you for your service, here's a discount code For carrying that impossible load [Pre-Chorus] They played you off the plane with patriotic songs Now you're just another commercial all day long [Chorus: Scathing, powerful] It's a veteran's day sale, red white and blue Commodify the sacrifice, that's what we do From ticker-tape parades to parking lot balloons We celebrate your trauma every year in June It's a veteran's day sale, step right up We care, we swear, here's a coffee cup [Verse 2] My buddy came back missing pieces of his mind They gave him a parade and a wait time For the VA to see him, nine months or more But hey, free appetizer at the chain restaurant store [Bridge: Raw anger and sadness] [Heavy, sludgy] You fought for freedom or oil or lies Depending who you ask and which version they buy But either way you bled the same And we turned your pain into a marketing game [Final Chorus: Defiant] It's a veteran's day sale, cheapest price in town On the backs of those who wore the crown Of thorns disguised as medals bright For doing what they thought was right It's a veteran's day sale, makes me sick This patriotic theater trick [Outro: Military drums fade to feedback] [Uncomfortable, unresolved ending]
