Just the Way it Goes

the firework display
not your patriot
today or any other day
flags waved in my face
we watch explosions in the night sky
remembering someone died
for your free dumb
the empire don't taste so good
the dead reign of fools
this home of bones we're born in to

we drink from the sewars
because there is no clean water
we send our children off to die
calling it peace instead of slaughter

the babies keep on coming
the hopeful keep on loving