Me + Mine (Lamentations) - American Aquarium

Me and mine have worked this land

As long as my grandfather can remember

Plowin' soil, diggin' holes

Haulin' coal, to strippin' down the timber

Then they showed up, they shut us down

Same old story, the same old town

«It's like we don’t matter», momma said

«At least that’s how it seems»

And that’s the day I woke up

From the American dream

What are you supposed to do

When the God you’re prayin' to

Up and goes missin'?

Leaves a trail of unpaid bills

Broken homes and opioid addiction

And then a politician shows up

Promisin' that

He’ll return the jobs

That God himself could not bring back

Fool me once, shame on you

Fool me twice, shame on me

Yeah, that’s the day I gave up

On the American dream

These lamentations

Are gettin' too damn hard to sing

These lamentations

Are gonna be the death of me

You see, me and mine, we ain’t the kind

To sit around idle and complain

We’re tough as nails, mean as hell

Without an ounce of quit in our veins

But the harder we work, the more they take

'Til all the good is gone, for goodness sake

Neither the left or the right

Are gonna fight

For folks stuck in between

The way things really are

The American dream

These lamentations

Are gonna be the death of me

These lamentations

Are gettin' too damn hard to sing

These lamentations

Are gonna be the death of me

These lamentations

Are gettin' too damn hard to sing