Pollsters sweating through the TV glow, Red hats fading at the rodeo show, Campaign smiles cracking at the seams, Static in the bloodstream of the American dream. Bought a gold watch from the patriot store, Misspelled freedom stamped on the door, Wife cried laughing in the kitchen light, Stars and stripes stitched crooked overnight. Every headline screams in surround sound, Truth gets buried where the clicks are found, Everybody scrolling through the end of days, Advertising doom in a hundred different ways. Missiles in the desert, drones in the sky, Oil flames dancing while the anchors lie, History burning brick by brick, Stamping out democracy, making us sick. From Chicago jails to the border line, Jews are demo'in castles that are older than time, You know January 6th was an insurrection, everyone, Stop waiting for someday, it’s never gonna come. Spy chief bought with a donor’s grin, He's was killing children before age ten., Handshake politics behind closed doors, Same old empire with revolving doors. Colorado preacher with blood on his tongue, Talking like the west was still loaded guns, These fucks acting like they earned Boy Scout badges, Killing seven-year-olds like deranged wild savages Drones over Petersburg blacking out the docks, Warships sleeping while the harbor rocks, Putin staring through a television haze, Counting wreckage after fifteen hundred and sixty days. Southern Lebanon turned to dust and smoke, Temples split apart like a family joke, Crusader stones and Phoenician names, Reduced to ash in the modern games. Everybody’s tribe got a different feed, Different fear, different enemy, One side prays while the other side trades, Both refreshing for the next cascade. Missiles in the desert, drones in the sky, Children learning how civilizations die, Every channel says the world’s on fire, Gonna make us great again, what a liar. From the jailhouse walls to the border sands, To the oil ports and the promised lands, Static generation singing numb and stunned, Watching history load another gun.
