America Without The People

I am the American Gorbachev
I will end the American empire
I’ll divest of all the islands
They can pay for their own steeple
I will give you America without the people

I will cancel our agreements
I will zero our accounts
Let the Chinese have our launch sites
And feed the natives dirty mouths
Corporatist field day
In the rivers they can leak all over
I will give you America without the people

And the acreages of coal mines
And the endless fields of grain
And the concrete chains of highway
And the ghost towns in the rain

I will seek no new alliance
Unless it brings me gold
I will shift and hide and camouflage
Find new friends, spurn the old
Find answers in the shadows
And the oceans plunder deep oh—
I will give you America without the people

(lyrics: Dan Bern)