Oh America! (Extended Version)

Oh, America, land of the free Your flag is flyin' but it looks dirty to me Oh, America, home of the brave Anywhere you go, you're leavin' too many graves The chest is so big but the brain is too small The whole world's cryin' out, "Just stop the wars" Don't care about the climate, don't care about the poor You don't seem to care about too much at all Oh, America, land of the free Your flag is flyin' but it looks dirty to me Oh, America, home of the brave Anywhere you go, you're leavin' too many graves You say you're with God but you wield Satan's sword With kangaroo courts you just make up your laws No human rights, oh, yes, we know the score The bogey man is close, he may live next door Oh, America, land of the free Your flag is flyin' but it looks dirty to me Oh, America, home of the brave Anywhere you go, you're leavin' too many graves When the floods came down, it showed all your old traits Condemned your own people on the basis of race Why leave vulnerable people in a vulnerable place? It's a crying shame, it's a freaking disgrace Oh, America, land of the free Your flag is flyin' but it looks dirty to me Oh, America, home of the brave Anywhere you go, you're leavin' too many graves I say the government man, them seem to get it wrong Them seem to make a whole heap of bad decision Time fe good Americans to stand up strong Like friends over there we know for so long Stand up firm, me say, stand up strong Time fe mek a new day, we no love Babylon Me say, stand up firm, me say, stand up strong Time fe mek a new day, we no love Babylon They say the military help you be a better man But still they don't really care about the veteran And, yeah, I did a couple years in the navy Floating in the ocean, eating rice and the gravy I would've never went if I could have went to college But they were like, no money, no knowledge We give a lot of bread to these lame institutions But most of them teachin' us lies and not solutions See how they rearrange the black man's contribution And now they got the nerve to go and change the constitution The birds can't fly, the sky is full of pollution Earths temperature rising like the crime rate in Houston Police are corrupt, nobody is watching the borders We never hear the truth about the war from reporters In the ghetto, we pray a lot as life gets shorter Man, my heart is in the hood, is this the new world order? Stand up firm, me say, stand up strong Time fe mek a new day, we no love Babylon Me say, stand up firm, me say, stand up strong Time fe mek a new day, we no love Babylon America, certified home of the brave We got freedom of speech but just watch what you say In America, certified land of the free And you can't believe everything you see on TV Be hoping for a change in time, you wanna vote, stand in line Different races, many faces, unifying every time See Clinton or Obama, man, could help relieve the drama We're grindin' and findin' answers while they're searching for Osama See soldiers dyin' and mothers cryin', this war will never cease Media lyin', America, they never wanted peace Bush is a beast, he snatchin' oil from the Middle East Let the rich get a piece, we barely make it in the streets Overworked, underpaid, waitin' on government aid Fast food, bad grades, rush me to an early grave We 'bout solutions like equal funding for these institutions Knowledge never fails and college keepin' us out of jail From the left to the right to the front to the back Them never see we comin' AD UB40, ah, see This one is a journey Through the minds with lines for life This one take them further, ah Ah, hon, me say America, America, can you stop for a sec Just a sec, please, can you just look this way? We no like how it's goin' down, please can you slow it down Please can someone explain? How the building, them was tall, then the building dem ah fall And the people, dem ah dyin' for no reason Just give me a reason America Stand up firm, me say, stand up strong Time fe mek a new day, we no love Babylon Me say, stand up firm, me say, stand up strong Time fe mek a new day, we no love Babylon Me say, stand up firm, me say, stand up strong Time fe mek a new day, we no love Babylon Me say, stand up firm, me say, stand up strong Time fe mek a new day, we no love Babylon