Lyrics
Gunshots sing the kids to sleep
Have you abandoned your eyes?
I'm sick of watching you do nothing
As they beg for life
I can't see the freedom you've approved
Through the sight of lives
We continue to lose
Fear consumes
But it's all we have
Fear consumes
But it's all we have
Ban the books
Arm the teachers
Let the backpacks fill with bullet holes
Raise the flag
Lower the caskets
Land of the free
Home of the brave
Under the flag
We line them in their graves
From the mountains to the prairies
The children find no safety
In a nation plagued by strife
Where the young ones pay the price
In this battle we all cry
For a future where they thrive
But our eyes won't close in sleep
For the promise we must keep
To ensure that they can dream
Ban the books
Arm the teachers
Let the backpacks fill with bullet holes
Raise the flag
Lower the caskets
Raise the flag
Lower the caskets
Land of the free
Home of the brave
Under the flag
We line them in their graves
From the mountains to the prairies
The children find no safety
No sanctuary
In the name of liberty
We bear our arms
In the halls of youth
We hold back no harm
To red, white and blue
We pledge allegiance
Under Stars and Stripes
Our dead are legion
Stars and Stripes grant the freedom to die