America 1st

[Intro] Yeah We want truth, not a script Eyes open [Verse 1] I turn the news on Same sad sermon Every anchor twisting language Every word is a diversion Bills on the table But they’re signing foreign first While our roads crack open And the nurses work hurt Tax checks fly Over desert sand and smoke But my neighbor lost his house Man, that “aid” feels like a joke They swear it’s “shared values” While our rent never drops Whole town boarded up But they funding other cops [Chorus] Why wave their banner, let ours fade away? Why bleed us dry for wars we never say? From the ashes rising, hear our battle cry America first—why you sellin' lies? America first—under freedom's sky America first—let the eagles fly! [Verse 2] Lobby cash talking In a quiet hotel bar Whispered deals over dinners While they plot another war They brand you “hater” If you question where it goes But I see hungry kids here Winter coming with the snow They wrap it all in faith In trauma, in fear Say “it’s complicated” Just to keep it unclear But it’s simple where I’m standing Where the factory shut down Every vote they cast “abroad” Is a knife in this town [Chorus] [Instrumental] (Spoken in background: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.") [Verse 3] Borders wide open While our dreams get fenced in Flood of promises broken And the chaos creeps within They talk “global family” From their gated estates But our schools are crumbling And the debt seals our fate Veterans waiting in line For a bed or a meal While billions vanish overseas In some backroom deal We built this land on sweat Not on endless IOUs Time to cut the strings And rebuild what we knew [Bridge] Who speaks for the vet Sleeping under that bridge? Who speaks for the mom Eating less for her kids? If you swear an oath here Why your heart overseas? Put the people that you serve Over donors and their fees [Instrumental] (Spoken in background: "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.") [Verse 4] Echoes from the founders Ringin' in my ear They fought for freedom here Not to fund endless fear Now the suits in the Capitol Play their empire games While Main Street fades away In forgotten names We the people rising From the fields and the mills Demanding what’s ours No more footing their bills It’s time for the reckoning For the truth to ignite America first In the dead of the night [Chorus] (Extended with build-up) Why wave their banner, let ours fade away? Why bleed us dry for wars we never say? From the ashes rising, hear our battle cry America first—why you sellin' lies? America first—under freedom's sky America first—let the eagles fly! America first—till the day we die!