Selfish Americans - Dogwood

Rotting from the innards out

Another decade and they’re vanishing

What is it to you?

What is it to me?

There’s nothing we can do so I’ll just leave it the same

Stolen from our sight and mind

Swept under the rug, no shame

Oblivious to the poverty

And we’re the ones to blame

Consumers venerate

The power to take away

It’s burning ever closer

Killing them everyday

The pleasure to disregard it

Those children feel the sting

Conversely we forget them

With every passing day

They’ll never go away

And here we stay

Selfish Americans

Selfish Americans

Recognize their plight

Take a look at them

We take for granted our God given freedom

They’ve got nothing out there

We need to lend an unselfish hand

Commit ourselves to serve

There’s so much we have, we don’t know what to do

And the answer’s already there

Selfish Americans

Selfish Americans

Selfish Americans