This Is Your America

Alright now, hush up and listen good

This is your America

He left in the springtime, 19 and proud

Came back a stranger knockin' at his own front door

Sits on the porch, but he ain't really there

America sent him, America don't care

You preach to the world about the land of the free

Home of the brave don't look so brave to me

You know what you've done, and you know what you do

This is your America (this is your America)

This is your America (this is your America)

This is your America (this is your America)

Ah -whoo (this is your America)

Swore his life to serve this land, this land looked away

America shook some hands that day, didn't shake them all

Wore his medals home, but the cops still call him "Boy"

Medgar came home, survived the jungle, got cut down by a coward's gun

You preach to the world about the land of the free

Home of the brave don't look so brave to me

You know what you've done, and you know what you do

This is your America (this is your America)

This is your America (this is your America)

This is your America (this is your America)

Ah-whoo (this is your America)

Martin climbed the mountaintop, said, he'd seen the view

Killed him on that balcony before the dream came through

America pulled the trigger on everything he planned

Shot the only man who dared to make a stand

Took the dream he carried and they buried it alive

Millions of people wondering how they gonna survive

World kept right on turning, didn't lose no sleep

Left us with a wound that cut too wide and deep

Tricky Dicky talking law and order, means keep us in our place

Flew to the moon and back, this neighborhood still broke

My brother came home breathing, but he ain't living free

When you gonna wake up, when you gonna see

You preach to the world about the land of the free

Home of the brave don't look so brave to me

You know what you've done, and you know what you do

This is your America (this is your America)