American politicians
Have scarred our good name
There are those too scared to see
The terror threat hyperbole
We're not all blood thirsty (ignorant)
Flag waving government sycophants
See through the lies, in corporate ties
We singing, we want a change
And ignoring the Log in our eye
Sending thousands off to die
Watch them lose their ass (on page 23)
Then they save their face on your TV
(On your TV) on TV, yeah!
Got to be the good American
Got to be the good American
Questioning – what they are selling me?
Questioning – what they are selling me?
Go, go, go!
Go, go, go!
Go, go, go
Go!
Hell bent on Nation building
Governments run amuck
In the name homeland security
It's the worldwide manifest destiny
International bully
With a disregard for sovereignty
I see health care shutting down, but
Baghdad needs a mall downtown
How can we?
How can we?
How can we?
Well, how can we find the speck in our brothers eye
When we're the ones going blind?
Going blind
Going blind, oh
Got to be the good American
Got to be the good American
Questioning – what they are selling me?
Questioning – what they are selling me?
Got to be the good American
Got to be the good American
Questioning – what they have done to me?
What they have done to me?
How can we save anybody else
When we can't save ourselves?
And how can we change anybody else
When we fail to change ourselves?
And how can we give away
What we don't already have, anyway?
Go, go, go!
Go, go, go!
Go, go, go
Go!
I got to be the good American (hey, hey, hey, hey)
I don't want to be no president (hey, hey, hey, hey)
Got to be the good American (hey, hey, hey, hey)
I don't want to be no patriot (hey, hey, hey, hey)
Now we can't waste
We can't waste our feelings on
If they will hate or love us
We will overcome
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Yeah