Merican

We flipped the finger to the king of England

Then stole our country from the Indians

With God on our side and guns in our hands

We took it for our own



Built a nation dedicated to liberty

Justice, and equality

Does it look that way to you? It doesn't look that way to me

Sickest joke I know



Listen up, man, I'll tell you who I am

I'm just another stupid American

You don't want to listen, you don't want to understand

So finish up your drink and go home



I come from the land of Ben Franklin

Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman

Otis Redding, Ellington

The country that I love



But it's the land of the slaves and the Ku Klux Klan

Haymarket Riot and the Great Depression

Joe McCarthy, Vietnam

Sickest joke I know



Listen up, man, I'll tell you who I am

I'm just another stupid American

You don't want to listen, you don't want to understand

So finish up your drink and go home



I'm proud and ashamed

Every 4th of July

You've got to know the truth

Before you say that you've got pride



Now the cops got tanks 'cause the kids got guns

Shrinks pushing pills on everyone

Cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun

Straight to hell we go



Listen up, man, I'll tell you who I am

I'm just another stupid American

But you don't want to listen, you don't want to understand

So finish up your drink and go home



Listen up, man, I'll tell you who I am

I'm just another stupid American

But you don't want to listen, you don't want to understand

So finish up your drink and go home



Finish up your drink and go home