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America
Land of the free
Home of the brave
More like land of the free labor
Home of the slaves
Where freedom is free
Only if you're willing to pay the sign up fee
Land where happy cows make happy cheese
Crappy cubicles advocate apathy
Land of the free entry to subsidized privatized penitentiary
Home of underfunded and overutilized public elementary
With political assemblies meant to represent we the people
A congress more concerned with sexual conquest
But paradoxically and ironically act as the constituent's public enemy
Medicare, social security, planned parenthood, gay marriage and programs that have benefit seen
Lobbyist and the intolerance sought an end to these
Immigrants labeled criminal and sentenced free of due process

A nation so lawful yet lawless for the top 2 percent check the facts
Where capitalists do it laissez-faire like Goldman Sachs
And the average man pays his soul in tax
Regulations on corporate capital gains laws old and lax
Expropriation makes it hard to keep the whole intact
Proletariat sold, Bourgeois cold and fat
Poor lassoed with a lariat, so the rich can hold them back
Backs bruised on each rung of the corporate ladder
Blood, sweat and tears used and wrung for the only goal that matters
Gold, profit scattered among the unspent anonymous
Wall St. prophets natter on how to upend the commonest
The crux of the matter, fold up your tattered flags, so your broke ass can read the Economist
The myth of social mobility brings a smatter of laughter to rags of the dirt spattered populace

Land of free speech
Home of the Patriot Act
Where the wrong phrase said remotely seditious
Can lead to rendition in the name of preventing an attack
Extraordinary is a perfect modifier
For the morbidly disordered use of empire
Shouting fire in a burning cinema
Is tantamount to touting flood in a ship up
To the levees, and supposedly we’re granted the right to peaceable assembly
When imams are accused of preaching verbal bombs of Islam
When Fox News and burning Qurans are inciting things deadly
But Assange of Wikileaks is treated wickedly
And Bradley Manning is manning a cell for free speech instantly
Leaked cables versus cable news which can more easily harm me
While terrorists cells dwell everywhere, we call the army
Military intelligence gathered without sympathy
From sea to shining see the hypocrisy
Makes me sad to be an American, where I know I’ll be free
So it seems, I won’t forget the fact that I can be deprived
Unceremoniously of the rights they say they might have given me
And I gladly stand up next to thee
Dispense social justice still with dismay
I love this land but fuck the politics, lobbyists, ideologists, capitalist, anti-Communist, Theologist, and demagogueries so commonly a part of the superstructure of the USA