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columbus sailed the circle blue
found native slaves fit his point of view
gold in hand and kindgoms came
..and then america was made

i've never been in a finer place, but it's the only place i've been
and when i start to look at the competition i get american amnesia

i don't remember days of not being allowed to vote
for the president or the senators
and for anyone, if i was a woman
or as a black where i was a slave

and if native american,
quickest headed for the mass grave
rounded up just like gypsy and jew
eliminated from view

of these amber waves of grain
and one day on roman mountain majesties

above the fruited plains
while the wounds were still being dressed
and vultures picked bodies that still were dripping red
american amnesia said:

but we're good now, that's the past
we're the greatest thing sinse sliced bread
the greatest country to ever exist
who wouldn't want to live in a land like this?

we were singing all along the years ahead
as native remnants decayed on reservations
and immigrants labored beside little kids
in the sweatshops of the industrial age

but we're good now, that's the past
we're the greatest thing sinse sliced bread
the greatest country to ever exist
who wouldn't want to live in a land like this?

we were singing all along the years ahead
alongside the japanese internment camps
the atomic bombs on little kids
still radiated but we're good now that's the past

i've never been in a finer place, but it's the only place i've been
and when i start to look at the competition i get american amnesia

i don't remember days of skies bleeding as bodies hung
sep'rate but equal and us mccarthites
and water cannons on a freedom march
daley's 'shoot to kill' and kent state

and how it all relates,...
oh how these thoughts escape,
eliminated from view

by these iron waves of grain
and one day on roman mountain majesties

above the seedless plains
while the wounds were still being dressed
and vultures picked bodies that still were dripping red
american amnesia said:

but we're good now, that's the past
we're the greatest thing sinse sliced bread
the greatest country to ever exist
who wouldn't want to live in a land like this?

singing all along the years ahead
as native remnants decayed on, on reservations
and homeland security tortured 'them'
as more sweatshops were built and fences were raised

i've never been in a finer place, but it's the only place i've been
and when i start to look at the competition i get american amnesia

and there's so many other things i forget
but i know in this moment now we're the best(we're great)
just like we said we were
just like i'll say again