-The Darker Side of US-

 

Welcome to my greatest nation

all it's pleasures and it's pain

the garden of the great temptation

the realm of the happily inane!

 

They say life is a masquerade

and though we're costumed very well

I wonder if we're aptly trained

to live eternally in hell?

 

We cheat, we lie, all without thought

and put great bounty on our shelves

we flash all over what we've bought

When it's all owned by someone else!

 

Gluttony, greed and vanity

run rampant through our very streets

Perverting a great society

to wolves who feed on silent sheep!

 

In our grand democratic tradition

All the people gather round

and in response to this condition

We outlaw Tag on school playgrounds?

 

Where did we turn off, get misguided

or had we gone wrong from the start,

as a nation built to Stand United

slowly tears itself apart?

 

Perhaps it's just my jaded way

to see the darker side of US

they tore it further yesterday

and still, I hope... In God We Trust.