The American War - Simone White

Do you remember the American War

It wasn’t that long ago it was fought on every shore

Are you trying to tell me that you didn’t know?

I saw you reading the paper at the corner store

(Yes, I know, that’s a joke)

Did you ever think you lived inside the belly of the beast?

Are you giving it something nice to eat

Or are you waiting for your very own special treat?

We like to live on easy street

Do you remember all the people we bombed

All the homes that were there that are now gone

Well whoever told you that life was fair

People have to die

Over there

Did you ever think this was the greatest country in the world?

With freedom and democracy and SUV’s called Liberty

For every boy and girl?

The oyster chokes on it’s own pearl

We know you can’t help where you’re born

It’s not that you’re foreign

It’s what you stand for

We know it’s hard to strat reform

The revolution’s born

But no one claims it

(Winning Ticket)

Do you remember the American War

We thought it was fun but it was a bore

Do you remember the American War

We forgot what we were fighting for

We forgot what we were fighting for