City On The Hill

All the founding fathers

sowed their seeds into servant girls

All the godless heathens

had to leave to make a newer world

So we could live together in America

Justice is blind and so is love

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All the stolen melodies

they played in the hit parade

All the borrowed spirituals

they feigned in the salad days

So we could sing together in America

The price of an anthem paid in blood

Bodies stacked like hundred dollar bills

(Carved names into a wall)

To build that shining city on the hill

(Forgot them all)

There’s no guilt, regret or shame

It just had to be this way

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If you scheme and hustle just don’t get caught,

you’ve got to risk it all

Or hang on every number

they read off for the Powerball

We’ll all get rich together in America

Money is indifferent and so is love

Trash bags full of hundred dollar bills

(Put statues on the mall)

We left that bombed-out city on the hill

(Forgave them all)

Have to relocate the past

Because we are never going back

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