So, You're Tired of America?

So you're tired of America

You're tired of having clothes to wear

And shoes on your feet and enough to eat

You're fed up with the opportunity to find

A job and make at least a decent living

You want to change it all

Revolutionize, demonstrate, march, fight in the streets

And you want me to join you

Well we'd better stand up on our feet

We'd better think before we speak

These are the things that make a nation weak

So you're sick of our flag

To you the red, white and blue no longer stands

Old Glory, the symbol of freedom has lost its meaning

Bring Old Glory down, stomp it, burn it, turn your back on it

Bring it down to stay

And while you're making a firebomb and growing long hair

Your brother is dying in Vietnam

You've forgotten that you are an American

Well we'd better stand up on our feet

We'd better think before we speak

These are the things that make a nation weak

Well have we thought about what we can do for our country

Instead of trying to make it weak?

Have we thought about what the black

Man and the white man can do together

And I don't mean in the streets

Have we thought about those who have no arms and legs to fight with

And those who can't speak, what have we done for them?

Have we thought about what we can do to improve our schools

Instead of trying to degrade them?

Who are we trying to impress anyway, ourselves or our friends?

What difference will it make fifty years from now to us?

But what about the child you're rearing?

Or is the hammer and sickle more appealing

To you than the symbol of freedom?

Well we'd better stand up on our feet

We'd better think before we speak

These are the things that make a nation weak

So grow long hair, wear dirty clothes, curse the police

Burn your draft card, destroy our flag, disown our nation

Hijack an airplane, march in the streets

Forget that you're an American

Destroy yourself and I'll see you in hell

'Cause that's what it's gonna be like after we're through

The great eagle no longer flies but lies dead and silent

And the great nation it wings falls with it

No, I love America and so do you if you'll admit it

Well we'd better stand up on our feet

We'd better think before we speak

These are the things that make a nation weak

No, you're not tired of America

Because you're not tired of being free