To Sing For Our Rebirth

I put on my best suit

I tied my fav'rite tie

I polished my best boot

I've watched my country die

I'm at the funeral for

My home, the USA

I'm broken to my core

We buried her today

He told us years ago

He'd fire a single shot

Kill a man, ya know

His guilt would matter not

We hired him anyway

He made the moneyed smile

The rest, our dreams betray

Through cruelty and guile

He fooled some clergy folk

Who've brushed their God aside

They still don't get the joke

In their pulpits pumped with pride

I've good neighbors who applaud

Our constitution's fall

The grift, the spite, the fraud

They've cheered him through it all

I'm at the funeral of

Desire for decency

I cannot find the love

For the very life of me

So you find me emptied here

I've never been this low

A troubled balladeer

With just a song to show

The only good I see

The only peace I know

Is loved ones close to me

When music starts to flow

I've made myself a pledge

For sake of Mother Earth

To step down off the ledge

To sing for our rebirth