I want to pledge allegiance to the country where I live I don't want to be ashamed to be American But opportunity No it don't exist It's the opiate Of the populace We need some harder shit now The truth's getting around And each public school is a halfway house Where the huddled masses sober up and up Enough? There's not enough To fatten the cows and feed all of us. It's just a rationing of luck What can't be bought gets raffled off. Oh god good god she'd greed on thee, Your shining sea turned a dirty green From the industry Off the shores of New Jersey I got a letter from the army so I think that I'll enlist I'm not brave or proud of nothing I just want to kill something Too bad that nowadays you just point and click Swing low satellite, hot white chariot In the computer's blue glare The bombs burst in the air There was a city once now nothing's there Our freedom comes at their expense It makes sense does it? Dollars and cents They're stretching barbed wire across the picket fence That's surrounding your housing development In case you lack the confidence Oh god my god give strength to thee These amber waves purple majesty is nothing but Backdrops for Disney Look up close it's superimposed On a blank blue screen yea it's fantasy Fucking magical The dream floats like a chemical Through each snapped synapse Our television past that is beautiful No more No more