Story Behind The Song

The song came out of my experience of moving back to America from Europe in 2001. Having essentially been gone for fifteen years, the corporate rape of our beautiful was starkly obvious across the land, omninous, homogenous, and hiding great evil. It was also extremely frustrating trying to get back into music as well, which inspired me to an even greater howl..

Song Description

this is hard rock/blues with some jazz. excellent guitar work. Pratt cries out his righteous anger and frustration at the blindness and cruelty of society, without losing his sense of humor. God smiles at him.

Lyrics

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they've all gone home, but they didn't shut off the phone
Welcome to America
It don't matter who you are, it don't matter what you've done
we just want your money

It makes you want to scream, the way you get pushed around
by every machine, and every sick clown, and they smile, but they don't mean it

It don't matter who you are...

honey I don't want to live here, honey it's much too strange, everything we had has been taken away
honey give me another smile, another taste of your love
oh oh oh oh
there's a man with a broken back lying by the side of the road
nobody's stopping, they haven't got time
they're all rushing to their next appointment
to make another deal, and make a lot of money
and get away from it all
get away from it all
in Hawaii

It don't matter who you are...
Well it's dog eat dog, cat eat cat, most of all it's rat eat rat
yea it's dog eat dog....in America
Welcome to America

What have they done to my country....