The Great American Novel

I was born and raised an orphan In a land that once was free You are far across the ocean In a war that's not your own In a land that poured it's love out on the moon And whilst you're winning theirs You're gonna lose the one at home And I grew up in the shadows Of your silos filled with grain Do you really think the only way To bring about the peace But you never helped to fill my empty spoon Is to sacrifice your children And kill all your enemies And when I was ten you murdered law With courtroom politics The politicians all make speeches While the news men all take note And you learned to make a lie sound just like truth But I know you better now ed And they exagerate the issues As they shove it down our throats And I don't fall for all your tricks Is it really up to them Whether this country sinks or floats And you've lost the one advantage of my youth And I wonder who would lead us If none of us would vote You kill a black man at midnight Just for talking to your daughter Well my phone is tapped and my lips are chapped From whispering through the fence Then you make his wife your mistress And you leave her without water You know every move I make Or is that just coincidence And the sheet you wear upon your face Is the sheet your children sleep on Well you try to make my way of life A little less like jail ) And every meal you say a prayer You don't believe but still you keep on If I promise to make tapes and slides And send them through the mail And your money says 'In God We Trust' But it's against the law to pray in school You say we beat the Russians to the moon And I say you starved your children to do it (final) You say 'all men are equal all men are brothers Then why are the rich more equal than others Don't ask me for the answer I've only got one That a man leaves his darkness when he fol lows the Son