To Be American

[Verse 1] To be American again Teenaged and certain of innocence Six lanes of Western caravan Burn fuel to speed up the renaissance [Pre-Chorus] Before the trench coats and the roped-off rooms The shell-shocked mothers and the TV crews [Chorus] Foreclosing a grand, old dream Black motorcade running on empty Big box and a Ponzi scheme Drain everything, land of the plenty [Verse 2] In high school, I sang in the choir With all the Mormons from Rohnert Park Now all their houses are on fire Strangе glow of oxblood in the dark [Pre-Chorus] I think we all meant wеll, or so I thought That season, privilege was a parking spot [Chorus] Foreclosing a grand, old dream Black motorcade running on empty Big box and a Ponzi scheme Drain everything, land of the plenty [Verse 3] If Reconstruction and the War Seemed distant back in eleventh grade How quaint our simple lives before Seem now in face of the coming days [Chorus] Foreclosing a grand, old dream Black motorcade running on empty Big box and a Ponzi scheme Drain everything, land of the plenty [Outro] Our furniture's on the street In every church, last rites are spoken One criminal’s soft defeat Can't change the fact that we're broken