Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Wasteland Of The Free , by - Iris DeMent. Song from the album The Way I Should, in the genre Release date: 27.06.2017
Record label: Yep Roc
Song language: English
Wasteland Of The Free |
| We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines |
| and their speech is growing increasingly unkind |
| They say they are Christ’s disciples |
| but they don’t look like Jesus to me and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free |
| We got politicians running races on corporate cash |
| Now don’t tell me they don’t turn around and kiss them peoples’ass |
| You may call me old-fashioned |
| but that don’t fit my picture of a true democracy |
| and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free |
| We got CEO’s making two hundred times the workers’pay |
| but they’ll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage |
| and If you don’t like it, mister, they’ll ship your job |
| to some third-world country 'cross the sea |
| and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free |
| Living in the wasteland of the free |
| where the poor have now become the enemy |
| Let’s blame our troubles on the weak ones |
| Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy |
| Living in the wasteland of the free |
| We got little kids with guns fighting inner city wars |
| So what do we do, we put these little kids behind prison doors |
| and we call ourselves the advanced civilization |
| that sounds like crap to me and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free |
| We got high-school kids running 'round in Calvin Klein and Guess |
| who cannot pass a sixth-grade reading test |
| but if you ask them, they can tell you |
| the name of every crotch on mTV |
| and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free |
| We kill for oil, then we throw a party when we win |
| Some guy refuses to fight, and we call that the sin |
| but he’s standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free |
| Living in the wasteland of the free |
| where the poor have now become the enemy |
| Let’s blame our troubles on the weak ones |
| Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy |
| Living in the wasteland of the free |
| While we sit gloating in our greatness |
| justice is sinking to the bottom of the sea |
| Living in the wasteland of the free |
| Living in the wasteland of the free |
| Living in the wasteland of the free |