When freedom is in hiding from morality
when you've finally scrubbed this great land clean
of those values you hold in such high esteem
when you've finally divorced the numbers from the names
we can return to your good old days bound and gagged by sex and race
chained by family crazed by god while we while we

raise the flag shout down the past the stars and stripes stream by at half mast
your eyes well up with tears and yeah so do mine

I never knew
the high price of hypocrisy so pledge allegiance to the death penalty
believe in your drug war bow down to the tv set
you need to cultivate that apathy that swells inside your threat

raise the flag shout down the past your stars and stripes stream by at half mast
your eyes well up with tears and yeah so do mine

half mast dehumanized
half mast divided
half mast overloaded
half mast who the fuck cares

so long as you can sleep well under the iron fist.

Born Against- Half Mast