I'm breaking and waiting Watching your hands on the clock and I Wonder if you see How I feel You're shifting and blaming Aiming your politics right in my neck Trying to change How I feel I sing to the only home I've ever known I'm asking her how we've come To live in a nightmare, American-grown Where we let the good die young We let the good die young Oh Oh It's not just the classrooms It's our congregations and concert lines Asking if you see How they feel And all those barstools All of the children who ran to hide Are wishing that you'd see How they feel I sing to the only home I've еver known I'm asking her how we'vе come To live in a nightmare, American-grown Where we let the good die young They're shooting the stars and you're watching them fall In the comfort of your own home We live in the nightmare, American-grown Where we let the good die young Yeah, we let the good die young Oh, oh, oh We let the good die young Oh, oh, oh So I sing to the only home I've ever known Asking her how we've come To live in a nightmare, American-grown Where we let the good die young Well, I've spoken up, but it wasn't enough 'Cause a son lost a father today A woman was gunned down today Tell me your heart doesn't break Don't send me your thoughts and prayers 'Cause they don't go anywhere When we let the good die young