Mourning In America Lyrics - Brutalist Bricks - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

A white face in a white crowd 

The day, it starts and it gets harder just to stand out 

Someone, everyone organically can hang with 

Or someone cynically manipulating language 

Whoever told you that we needed you to be this? 

We've all been sold a bill of goods if we believe it 

Another warning from the well of true believers 

There will be mourning in America and we say 

Hey, hey, hey 

Hey, hey, hey 

You summon ghosts we tried to bury in their white shrouds 

With burning cross and bloody crescent in the White House 

You come on something like the faces I remember 

1980, Mississippi rising from the ash and embers 

Never, now, can I imagine me forgiving you 

Never, now, can I imagine how to live with you 

Another warning from the lake of people bleeding 

There will be mourning in America if you keep it up 

Hey, hey, hey 

Hey, hey, hey 

Up from the sultry air of the South of a time gone by 

To your mercurial mouth 

And where the buses in Boston that have idled for years 

Ride the line to Orange County and the fare is the fears 

Of the long manipulated and the willfully dumb 

You better watch what you ask for 

'Cause someday, it might just come