Mourning In Amerika - Rise Against

[?] switch on
We fire out all pistons
We’re singing along but no one is listening
From dusk until dawn we stay up to carry the flame
And when it’s all said and done in the alternate endings
When nothing is love
But the stragglers and empties are sleeping it off
Just to wake up and start it again
Burn the statues to the ground
Start to lay your weapons down
Bound for glory on this street
But there’s a bridge up over head
[?] so drown the signal out
[?] manufactured doubt
The only thing we’ll fight for everyday
Is a better seat for the crashing plane to see
But hard to breath
The streets are full of tumbleweeds

Now it’s mourning in the streets of America
But we don’t go outside anymore
We’re already past hysteria
While the television’s sideways on the floor

Under moonlit skies and surveillance
As we cheer from the stands in the stadiums
On a jumbo-tron we all sing along to escape
[?] the lighthouse
To the world’s most desperate ships
What we became was a tower in vain
Leading them off right into it
Now we are waking up to the phone lines cut

Cause’ we are mourning in the streets of America
And we don’t go outside anymore
We’re already past hysteria
While the television’s sideways

On the floor with a teleprompter in our faces
Yeah, we don’t even know what we’re saying
Car that’s slowly crashing
And we can’t look away
Parading to the edge of the cruise now
We’re trying to figure out how to get down
While the night is fast approaching
Would we even recognise our former lives in this artificial light?

Lyrics added by Denise T.