'merican Lyrics - 'merican - Descendents

we flipped our finger to the king of England 

and stole our country from the indians 

with God on our side and guns in our hands 

we took it for our own 

a nation dedicated to liberty 

justice and equality 

does it look that way to you? 

it doesn't look that way to me 

the sickest joke i know 

[chorus] 

listen up man, i'll tell you who i am 

just another stupid american 

you don't wanna listen 

you don't wanna understand 

so finish up your drink and go home 

I come from the land of Ben Franklin 

Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman 

Otis Redding, Ellington 

the country that I love 

but it's a land of the slaves and the ku klux klan 

Haymarket riot and the Great Depression 

Joe McCarthy, Vietnam 

the sickest joke I know 

[chorus] 

I'm proud and ashamed 

every Fourth of July 

you got to know the truth 

before you say that you got pride 

Now the cops got tanks 'cause the kids got guns 

shrinks pushin' pills on everyone 

cancer from the ocean 

cancer from the sun 

straight to hell we go 

[chorus 2x]