They Traded The World

red bones and white tears drown a nation
the blue of a horror miles deep
we wake to a life well worth saving
no more for this country sweet sleep

illusions we shed like burned skin
as we stand on the edge looking in
what happened to the everyday
complacency now blown away
we're pushed to the periphery of sin
at the center, they traded the world

the stars through dark smoke kept their glimmer
the stripes of caged tigers cut the sky
you felt the first ashes of winter
to warm us, you cloaked us in your lives

illusions we shed like burned skin
as we stand on the edge looking in
what happened to the everyday
complacency now blown away
we're pushed to the periphery of sin
at the center, they traded the world

from sea to shining sea
we mark four thousand graves
in the land of the free
now home of the brave

what happened to the everyday
complacency now blown away
we're pushed to the periphery of sin
at the center, they traded the world