The 4th

It just isn't the same at least in what I used to remember Life was all but a game as now such fireworks are a blur For a new time has now begun standing just off to the side Not sure who really won, but still, with that old sense of pride The cookouts still burn as the music plays in the backyard But as we all have learned that life has become pretty hard Always a new crisis ahead and no grudge ever left behind Forgetting all Those who have bleed as they sat and dined Stars and Stripes is still there but it's very Creator has left The two used to be a pair and that being the greatest theft Now they hush His Name, as in, out of sight and out of mind Action so filled with such shame, before this, you didn't find Yeah, today may be July four having so much to celebrate And the rockets red glare soar as below the masses wait But it's not the fourth I knew the one containing a prayer Yes I know that I grew, but even so, God was ALWAYS there