Nation of the Unclaimed

Step right up Step right up Step right in Borders are a rumor And we We redraw them in skin They stamped a country on our spines and called the bruise a border Put a leash around the bloodline and called the leash a order Mapped the doctrine on our bodies, drew the line across our throat Told us breathing past the boundary was the highest form of treason they wrote We came up in the wreckage of the kingdom that they sold Born into the rubble of a faith that couldn't hold Learned it early Learned it young Learned it from the belt and the fist That the nation they were building had a waiting list And we weren't on it And we never were going to be No anthem No oath No throne Just the nerve They couldn't own Welcome to the nation of the unclaimed Where the exiles wear the scar and the heretics are named Where the borders turn to ash and the guilty walk unchained Where the god they tried to sell us finally dies unnamed Welcome to the nation of the unclaimed Where the shame they burned into us is the fuel inside the flame Where the broken pour the concrete and the sinners stake their claim Where the thing they tried to bury claws its way back out and screams its name We carved a country out of aftermath and asphalt Raised a flag from every verdict they call somebody's fault Built a courthouse out of scar tissue, senate out of nerve Wrote a constitution for the people they said didn't deserve No commandments cut in stone No prophet running fear on contract No salvation sold by subscription No damnation engineered exact Just a people made from people Who got left outside the gate Just a nation born from those Who walked through fire and arrived late Arrived with nothing But the damage And the nerve No anthem No oath No throne Just the truth They couldn't own Welcome to the nation of the unclaimed Where the exiles wear the scar and the heretics are named Where the borders turn to ash and the guilty walk unchained Where the god they tried to sell us finally dies unnamed Welcome to the nation of the unclaimed Where the shame they burned into us is the fuel inside the flame Where the broken pour the concrete and the sinners stake their claim Where the thing they tried to bury claws its way back out and screams its name Brick by brick we raised it from the rubble of their scripture Rib by rib we redrew every border in the fissure Every exile is a citizen Every scar a sovereign deed Every wound is real We kept it It's the only thing we need They named us damage We named it land They called it ruin We called it planned They came at midnight with the doctrine and a deadline We built the city while they preached it on a flatline Raise the banner Raise the bone Raise the jaw We built our own Welcome to the nation of the unclaimed Where the exiles wear the scar and the heretics are named Where the borders turn to ash and the guilty walk unchained Where the god they tried to sell us finally dies unnamed Welcome to the nation of the unclaimed Where the shame they burned into us is the fuel inside the flame Where the broken pour the concrete and the sinners stake their claim Where the thing they tried to bury claws its way back out and screams its name We were always here We were always here We were always here We were always here Welcome home Welcome home