[fast internal rhyme]
They taught us stars and stripes meant justice for the weak,
Now the truth gets buried every time the people speak.
Billions leave the homeland while the bridges rust away,
Flag flies over promises that faded into gray.
Every headline’s filtered through a manufactured lens,
Shake another politician’s blood-stained, polished hands.
Children in the crossfire, names become a chart,
War gets sold as strategy while it tears the world apart.
Pre-Chorus
How many lives get written off?
How many tears become the cost?
If freedom’s real, then tell me why
The innocent are first to die?
Chorus
Land of the greed…
Home of the slaves…
Chains ain’t always iron, sometimes they’re the lies we praise.
Wave another flag while the truth goes up in flames,
Calling it salvation while nobody takes the blame.
Land of the greed…
Home of the slaves…
Bought another silence with the taxes that we paid.
If justice wears a blindfold, who’s holding the scales?
Land of the greed…
Home of the slaves…
Verse 2
I’m not against a people, I’m against the endless war,
Against the ones who profit while they’re knocking down the door.
Governments ain’t holy just because they wear a crown,
Power writes the history while the victims drown.
Questions get you labeled, criticism gets denied,
Nuance disappears when the cameras choose a side.
If allies mean immunity, what message does that send?
That money buys forgiveness while the suffering never ends?
Bridge
Don’t mistake dissent for hate,
Don’t confuse a state with faith.
Every child deserves tomorrow,
Every mother feels the same.
Peace was never built by bombs,
Truth was never born from fear.
If humanity’s the mission,
Then humanity starts here.
Final Chorus
Land of the greed…
Home of the slaves…
Trading human lives for another power play.
Tell me what is freedom if it’s measured by the grave?
Tell me who’s the hero when the innocent can’t be saved?
Land of the greed…
Home of the slaves…
Maybe patriotism means demanding something brave.
Not blind obedience, but the courage to be changed…
Land of the greed…
Home of the slaves…
Outro
History’s watching.
The people remember.
Empires don’t fall in a day—
They fall when the truth gets louder than the propaganda.
Bakpaxs
