
Date of issue: 31.12.1969
Song language: English
For America |
As if I really didn’t understand |
That I was just another part of their plan |
I went off looking for the promise |
Believing in the Motherland |
And from the comfort of a dreamer’s bed |
And the safety of my own head |
I went on speaking of the future |
While other people fought and bled |
The kid I was when I first left home |
Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own |
But the freedom that he found wasn’t quite as sweet |
When the truth was known |
I have prayed for America |
I was made for America |
It’s in my blood and in my bones |
By the dawn’s early light |
By all I know is right |
We’re going to reap what we have sown |
As if freedom was a question of might |
As if loyalty was black and white |
You hear people say it all the time- |
«My country wrong or right» |
I want to know what that’s got to do With what it takes to find out what’s true |
With everyone from the President on down |
Trying to keep it from you |
The thing I wonder about the Dads and Moms |
Who send their sons to the Vietnams |
Will they really think their way of life |
Has been protected as the next war comes? |
I have prayed for America |
I was made for America |
Her shining dream plays in my mind |
By the rockets red glare |
A generation’s blank stare |
We better wake her up this time |
The kid I was when I first left home |
Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own |
But the freedom that he found wasn’t quite a sweet |
When the truth was known |
I have prayed for America |
I was made for America |
I can’t let go till she comes around |
Until the land of the free |
Is awake and can see |
And until her conscience has been found |
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