Liberty Is A Statue Letra

will tell your mom i'll tell your dad

i'll send you to the principle again

now for the last time tell me what have you learned today?”

“teacher, teacher, i learned that there is only one way

that i can live. and that's the way that they program

in the textbooks and the tv screens”

hey mom, what did i learn today in school?

i learned how to be a boy.

i learned how to be a man.

and i sang “my country 'tis of thee”

because i like to sing.

and i learned that there's an 'us,' there's a 'them'

there are good guys there are bad guys

and the bad guys aren't allowed to be your friends.

and i learned all about liberty

it's a statue in a harbor near a city called new york

and i learned, statues are things that we build

to remind us of things that have died.

but wait, i'm so confused

because they told us that sharing was good

but then i look at my own town

and the one next door

and i wonder why we don't share some of our mansions

with the four car garages?

and them in their broken-down mills

and the dirty river that runs between us

it's not safe to swim across.

they told us so on a fieldtrip

to the other side.