What’s the American religion
Worship the blues
Blood red rose
Into the pale
America built on greed
Cast from the wide world
Oh Europe didn’t want us
But for the labor
And revolted
Revolting castes we kept
Fingers scratching through
The wood pulled along
Deceitful
Built on corruption
Foundation flawed
Independence from foreign tax
Taxed now in triplicate relax
Oligarchical orchestrations
Joke to other nations
What’s the American Religion
Hypocrisy
Nepotrocity
Divisity
What’s the American Religion
United Corpses
Nation wailing under flags
Fallen people
To hell we’re dragged
By womb and wrought
By weapons reeled
In like fish upon a hook
Lurid lures
How hope endures
Despite this American Condition
How will it end
A civil war?
Civility already fled
Upon hate and loathing fed
Dressed in tears
And torn address
They say out loud
How they confess
Power holding too much sway
To corporations and NRA
What is the American Religion
Money bags
And velvet couches
Polished shoes
And welfare vouchers
How the rich steal from the poor
Can we take a minute more
Before the whole nation crumbles
Here the drumbs
Hear the rumbles
All the gold is fumbled
What is the American Religion
How we prey
Run for cover
Enough we say
Enough
We sit and wonder
What tragedy befalls today
Religious zeal has no place
In governing the human race
Ethics are a different story
Written by integrity
Finger pointing
Shouting words
No one is really heard
Below the fray
Can we worship peace
Can we idolize love
Can we prioritize the living
Will we squander our ideals
Will we waste our lives away
Singing hims of patriarchy
On our knees we bend
An American Religion is a sin
We burn in flames red white and blue
There’s no escape for me and you
What reason needed logic
Intelligence is tragic
One more climb upon the stairs
Let us be free we do declare
From violence
Bodies autonomous
To live in pursuit of happiness
Not wealth
Access to good health
They take by force
They take by stealth
Our daily freedoms
Trespass not upon these rights
We can’t afford to fight
One nation under foot
We plead
And who hears
We beg
And who draws near
The aged notorious
Politicians on the take
And take
And take
What is the American Religion
In our arms we bear
Every lost life
From this American Condition
