Oh Country, My Country
Wrapped me up in a flag on the day I was born
With the red on the white telling me what I was
With a chest full of pride holding forth like a sage
In a time when a boy was a man of the age
Oh country, my country
Any other is an enemy
Despite what they might do or say
Oh country, my country
Is accidental by geography
Ignore what the history says
Now I'm a little bit older
And my blood runs colder
But still I find it hard to comprehend
Why the froth and the fervour
To drift a little bit further
Into the Atlantic
Into the Atlantic
Into the Atlantic
Oh country, my country
Is the dictator of identity
Entitlement thrown in for free
Oh country, my country
Je ne c'est pas pourquoi fait accompli
Is not what I hoped it would be
Got it in my head
To bite the hand that fed
Every morsel that
Nourished this
Thing in me
Got it in my head
To bite the hand that fed
Every morsel that
Nourished this
Thing in me
Oh country, my country
They did a fucking good number on me
Immutable as the land and the sea
Oh country, my country
Is it compassion or expediency?
Superior is as superior does
Oh country, drown in triviality, yeah
This is what they died for?
With the red on the white telling me what I was
With a chest full of pride holding forth like a sage
In a time when a boy was a man of the age
Oh country, my country
Any other is an enemy
Despite what they might do or say
Oh country, my country
Is accidental by geography
Ignore what the history says
Now I'm a little bit older
And my blood runs colder
But still I find it hard to comprehend
Why the froth and the fervour
To drift a little bit further
Into the Atlantic
Into the Atlantic
Into the Atlantic
Oh country, my country
Is the dictator of identity
Entitlement thrown in for free
Oh country, my country
Je ne c'est pas pourquoi fait accompli
Is not what I hoped it would be
Got it in my head
To bite the hand that fed
Every morsel that
Nourished this
Thing in me
Got it in my head
To bite the hand that fed
Every morsel that
Nourished this
Thing in me
Oh country, my country
They did a fucking good number on me
Immutable as the land and the sea
Oh country, my country
Is it compassion or expediency?
Superior is as superior does
Oh country, drown in triviality, yeah
This is what they died for?
Credits
Writer(s): Drew Thompson, Morgan Condon
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.