(draft)
(capo second fret: A D F#m E7 C#m Bm A shapes, quick strum, upbeat)
B E
Why are you afraid today?
G#m F#7
You’re gonna die anyway
D#m C#m
Or is the world trying to make
E B
A victim of you?
In A-merica
We shouldn’t care of you’re
Red or you’re white
It makes me blue
To see my brothers and
Sisters of color are
Suffering at the hands of
Systemic abuse
Black man in the street
He just wants some peace
Cop comes up and says
What do you do?
I’m just walking here
Isn’t that pretty clear
Haven’t you anything
Better to do?
In A-merica
We shouldn’t care if you’re
Brown or your black
But maybe we do.
Cop says he’s had enough
Puts the man into cuffs
Says "I gotta make
An example of you.”
On the news it said
That young man is dead
People in the streets yell
"What did he do?"
That young man is dead
People in the streets yell
"What did he do?"
In A-merica
We shouldn’t care if you’re
Rich or you’re poor
Red, purple or blue.
You said we're weak:
Peaceful riots in the street
The presidential Orangeman
Threatening you.
“If you don’t go away
I knee to the ground I say
I bring the army in for
Smothering you.”
You may be surprised to know
That’s not how it goes.
Americans everywhere
Coming for you.
Red, white, black and brown
Driving you outta town
It really isn’t hard to see
The failure of you.
All A-merica
Sees just what you are.
It's time you start to think of
Something better to do.
Something better to do.
