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America First

from Norman by Bradley Herr

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"America First" hits as deep as the South
Words flowing free from your forefather's mouth
In the heads of some people, life is defined.
By the whitewashed stagnant closed state of mind.

Hope this cast gets a little broadcast.
Cause it feels like half my nation don't like the contrast.
Pull up the forecast and watch 'em all blast
It's America First in the land of the past.

So here we go, what more could you ask for?
He got you bragging about no foreign wars
While we're killing each other each and every day
And we're still dropping missiles half the world away

Conveniently forgetting all the problems we ain't sweating
And the people we're upsetting with the progress we ain't setting
Shameful past? Fuck the past, the present's the shame,
Making believe that this mess ain't the same

And now we're singing to the hope of tomorrow
And raising our babies to ignore that we've borrowed
Today from their future, becoming the users of
Time that we've stolen to see our ends sooner

Yeah, yeah, your American state,
Stringing everyone along on "making it great"
But how do you go back to the way it was before
When before is the lore that you choose to ignore?

You ask why there's no white history month? Look,
It's cause white history's just your average history book
Cause "heritage not hate" doesn't mean everybody
And that heritage was built on 12 million bodies

America First? Seven billion disagree
People feeding their kids just like you and me
So pardon me but your "America First" is little more than a verse that brings America's worst

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from Norman, released October 30, 2020

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