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When your idols are fragile Is it any wonder kids lack style Perhaps if we walked a mile In the shoes of the soldier we'd attain guile Look at the newspaper The government is a caper And everything will taper Due to greed and paper Veterans are homeless begging for scraps And Millennials are told to lace up their bootstraps As if that will close the economic gaps But it won't until everyone snaps Racism festers and restores lingering resentment It's in this division the establishment finds contentment Even as the foundation crumbles with discontentment Some still pretend this land is resplendent It doesn't start at the level federal But that's where disaster breeds as if on schedule Some think this mess is residual But I blame the ignorant individual When the leaders are weak People find in demagogues what they seek They supposedly offer mystique But truthfully their ideas are antique Popular music is filled with trash And how many cars have to crash Before someone feels the backlash Of this idiotic splash We the people once defeated slavery Because we knew it to be unsavory But now we lack bravery To stand up to knavery Our democracy is broken With fear and trepidation awoken The fear mongers have spoken And I'm honestly heartbroken We once claimed the final frontier Through blood, sweat, and tears We conquered our greatest fear And proved we had no peers Truth is we never championed the free And it's all here for you to see So they request you bend the knee So you can't see the fallacy of the nominee We have to listen when the predecessor tells us we have to fight And we have to see he's absolutely right The time is now to muster our might It's in our American spirit that we eradicate this blight Black, White, Asian, or Hispanic We can rise above and defeat this panic And defeat a man so manic And bring peace back to the Atlantic This is not a fight between Conservatism and liberalism This is a battle of fantasy and realism And whether we believe in idealism It's time to unite against surrealism We stand at a precipice where we can come together And show unity exists outside of fair weather Or we can simply give in to the chains and tether As if our beliefs weigh as much as a feather When our idols are fragile It's no wonder kids lack style Now that we've walked the last mile We can see this fight is worthwhile
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