When the stars start to fall and the eagle to cry
When fear becomes the most powerful tool
When the powerful and wealthy look down and mock
The cowering, trembling controllable flock

This is America. We are different. We are free.

When we kill our children for our own selfishness
When we let our helpless fade away in their despair
When angels look down and weep
To see a nation of selfish sheep

This is America. We are different. We are free.

When their children die for our political gain
When the bombs that rain down come from me
When evil looks on us and he knows
Everything went exactly as he wanted it to go

This is America. We are different. We are free.

When we glimpse the terror we hate right in the mirror
When we wage wars for peace and drop bombs for freedom
When we look up to the sky to cry and to pray
For an end of a self-inflicted doomsday

This is America. We are different. We are free.

When the illusion begins to slowly shatter away
When dissent becomes the most feared new enemy
When we awake with nothing left but to lament
The freedoms that died with our silent consent

This is America. We are different. We are free

When the invisible prison of ignorance becomes real
When the public enemy of the new century is the public
When we wonder where everything has gone
And we realize that we were stupid, apathetic pawns

But this is America. We are different! And we are free.