Verse 1
It’s getting harder to breathe these days
Every headline feels like a warning sign
Sirens louder than lullabies
Truth bent until it barely survives
We were raised on promises written in ink
Checks and balances, pause and think
Now power moves with a clenched-fist grin
And silence feels like a mortal sin
Pre-Chorus
They say it’s normal, say don’t react
But history whispers, you’ve seen this track
Chorus
It’s scary living in the USA
Where the rules keep changing overnight
Where a badge can mean safety or danger
And mercy depends on who’s in sight
But we’re not ghosts, we’re not asleep
We’re still louder than the fear they keep
They can shake the ground, bend the law
But they haven’t broken us all
Verse 2
Children sleeping on concrete floors
Dreams denied at a metal door
Names reduced to case file numbers
Human lives called border problems
Words like enemy, traitor, threat
Thrown so easy, with no regret
When language turns to loaded guns
Violence follows every time it runs
Pre-Chorus
If law becomes a weaponized hand
Then justice won’t know where to stand
Chorus
It’s scary living in the USA
Where the line between right and wrong blurs thin
Where the executive signs with a heavy pen
And accountability clocks don’t chime in
But fear is not the same as fate
And silence is not the same as safe
We’re still here, still breathing truth
Still believing in something bigger than brute
Bridge
I won’t pretend this isn’t real
I won’t dress terror up as zeal
I won’t clap while the walls cave in
Or confuse obedience with peace
Because democracy doesn’t die in one loud scream
It fades when good people stop daring to dream
But hope is stubborn, hope survives
In borrowed courage and ordinary lives
Breakdown
In teachers, nurses, hands held tight
In strangers choosing love over fright
In voices shaking but still aloud
In standing up, not standing down
Final Chorus
Yeah it’s scary living in the USA
On the edge of what we might become
But history bends toward those who stay
When the long night thinks it’s won
They can threaten war, command with fear
Rewrite laws, redraw the lines
But the soul of this place lives right here
In the people who refuse to resign
Outro
So light a match in the darkened hall
Sing it soft or scream it raw
This country isn’t owned by power or force
It’s held together by conscience and choice
And as long as we choose each other
There’s still a future worth the fight
Weseeyou
