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This wasn’t exactly the kind of song I was expecting to hear about America.<\/p>\nThis wasn’t exactly the kind of song I was expecting to hear about America.<\/p>\n
This is not what I heard about America: the land of opportunity where the streets are paved with gold: a vast land of uncharted territory, rich, fertile soil and willing hands on the plow.<\/p>\n
What I heard about America was that it was God’s new country. This was supposed to be the land of wonders which attracts humans like iron filings to a magnet.<\/p>\n
So when I turned on the song America by Elijah’s Fire<\/em> some months ago, I was started. I listened to it over and over: not just because of the great vocalization or excellent beats, but also because of the ironic message<\/p>\n Here are the lyrics of the song:<\/p>\n There’s a place people are living<\/p>\n In the streets; ain’t got no home.<\/p>\n Now’s the time people are finding<\/p>\n Ain’t much fun being alone.<\/p>\n Don’t you want to know.<\/p>\n Don’t you wanna go.<\/p>\n Won’t you lend a hand:<\/p>\n Reach out and save this land.<\/p>\n America. America. America<\/p>\n Home of the free.<\/p>\n There’s a place people are dying<\/p>\n From the cold; ain’t got no heat.<\/p>\n There’s a place people are starving.<\/p>\n Ain’t got no food that they can eat.<\/p>\n Don’t you wanna know; don’t you wanna go.<\/p>\n Won’t you lend a hand:<\/p>\n Reach out and try to save this land.<\/p>\n America. America. America.<\/p>\n Home of the free.<\/p>\n There’s a place buildings are falling.<\/p>\n In the streets where people would walk<\/p>\n Rumors of war and violence flaring.<\/p>\n I guess by now you heard all the talk.<\/p>\n Don’t you wanna know;<\/p>\n Don’t you wanna go.<\/p>\n Won’t you lend a hand.<\/p>\n Reach out and try to save this land.<\/p>\n America. America. America.<\/p>\n Home of the free.<\/p>\n America. America. America.<\/p>\n Home of the free.<\/p>\n America. America. America.<\/p>\n America. America. America.<\/p>\n America:<\/p>\n Related: What Guyanese heard about the United States. Yes, America has had its fair share of violence and war. I guess that’s a side some immigrants never saw or had to deal with. Yes, we should laud the pioneers of this great land for making it what it is today: the land of the free; home of the brave.<\/p>\n Now tell me, what did you hear about America, or its sister Canada? And what did you hear about Estranged Mother England?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America<\/h1>\n
\nRelated: A Journey Across Two Seas<\/p>\n