Welcome to America

Welcome to America,

Come join our circus show.

The price for admission?

Only your soul.

Choose wisely, my friend,

For the costume you wear.

For donkey or elephant,

Each ticket seals despair.

For the war is unjust,

Declared by the proudly uncivil.

Enemies press forward,

Deaf to war’s red vigil.

The puppet masters pull

On heart and fear strings,

While the oligarchs call,

And Lady Liberty screams.

The crowd bellows,

While the world holds its breath—

Will we side against the right foe,

Or choose our country’s death?

We can hold to our roles,

And the villains we’ve been sold,

Or collapse the tent,

And step out of the fold.