Americanaan

A story is a complicated thing

A book is nothing more than ink and page

But songs of freedom, we must help to sing

There are no words for this ancestral sting

this godless cruelty that stains our age

A story is a complicated thing:

a burning bush, a promised land, a king,

the truth of them is difficult to gauge

But songs of freedom, we must help to sing,

and help rewrite the lyrics, or else bring

a freedom made of genocide and plagues

A story is a complicated thing

to make the roar of guns sound like cha-ching

and endless war look like a higher stage

but songs of freedom we must help to sing

to make his story ours, to spread our wings,

and cover this whole land with truth and sage

A story is a complicated thing,

but songs of freedom, we must help to sing.