America on fire

Gun shots in the street

Show them sign language be dead on your feet

Put your hands up and cooperate with seven shots in your face

Live the dream of the land of the free

Wake up in the home of the brave

Until you come home from war

No benefits from the VA

Cause fighting is free with the added benefits of vertigo and PTSD

Lose your family and your friends for false accusations

Be free to be randomly screened by the TSA

Be free to drink the dirty water in Flint while our politicians laugh

America’s on fire but not all of us see

The dead in the streets

The hungry and the poor

The single mothers evicted because they can’t get paid

We let these problems pass as we sleep tight with Uncle Sam and Miss Liberty

Ignoring their tears and all their screams for equality

Because all we see is the American Dream

The good life

Where we eat and drink

Where we walk in the grace of God

Because blessings come as long as we praise

That’s what we see in the light with our back turned to the dark

We ignore the scholars who can’t afford school

We call our hungry lazy as we sweep them under the street

We appropriate but refuse to cooperate

America on fire

Like were back in the forties

With no relief in sight