<chorus>
I do not recognize my country
What have they done to thee?
Raids on my city
Innocent lives torn in fear
That something different
May be near.
I do not see you.
I don not hear you.
What have they done to thee?
Tear gas thrown
Buildings blown
A self-appointed King
feeding fear
My heart in tatters
as Glass shatters.
Kristallnacht
An unwarranted fear,
this is not.
<chorus>
I do not recognize my country
What have they done to thee?
Is it 1933 Germany?
A man hanging from a tree.
Aren't we supposed to be free?
But we don't even take care of
our own military.
A shot heard round the block.
Soldiers watch and listen in shock.
Babies crying.
Mothers afraid of the whole
family dying.
A country built on immigration
and diversity.
A confluence of ideas,
built upon 250 years.
Slogging forward
to be stripped by a coward.
I do not recognize my country.
What have they done to thee?
Bullets fly in schools.
Gun worshippers look like ghouls.
Separated by race
so you can save face.
This is not the place.
I fell in love with you
in times of grace.
I do not want to wallow.
It feels so callow.
Tears fail to flow.
I know not where to go.
Overwhelmed and unprepared.
A purposeful banter to keep
us scared.
<chorus>
I do not recognize my
country.
What have they done to thee?
Boots on the ground.
Do you know what's going down?
Do red hats need to be our
welcome mats?
They world stands aghast.
Not knowing whether to laugh, scream or
gasp.
It's an age old story
that does not end in glory.
Is civil war to be avoided
or is it inevitably coiled
in fear, in rage, in a
subdivided cage.
Lies and deception
shown on a screen of perception?
Will we drown in our own conception?
Apathy knocks on the door,
But I couldn't care more.
Hard to know anything for
sure, only that
<chorus>
I do not recognize my country,
What have they done to thee?
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