Do you often remember the day the soldiers came When you became a number, not a child with a name How oft do you recall that specific day When they sold your family home and took you away
Banished to the desert to live in hot tar shacks Having no idea if you'd be ever coming back How oft do you recall walking to the school Being taught about the glories of democratic rule
As you sat beneath the watchtower, surrounded by a wall With liberty and justice for all
Do you often remember the young men allowed to leave To go fight and die in Europe, their families left to grieve In shacks there in the desert, locked behind a gate As you went to class each morning in these United States
As you sat beneath the watchtower, surrounded by a wall With liberty and justice for all
Do you often remember reciting those strange words As you held your hand on heart did it all seem so absurd One nation indivisible, one nation under God Condemned to live behind the wire by a presidential nod
As you sat beneath the watchtower, surrounded by a wall With liberty and justice for all
Do you often remember the day your family was set free And you went back to the coast beside the Pacific sea Without a home to go to, no soil left to till When you'd recite the pledge each morning was it a bitter pill
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