The Expatriate Act

The Expatriate Act

What America do I live in if not this one?
What do they think they're exporting? It's not me.
This land is my land
Wherever I stand
Only that money belongs to thee
The riot of history, our history of riots
The life you're strangling out of the word 'free'
Liberty ain't an airport in Newark
And towers don't need to be free
You drop the 'e' in 'equality'
Something nice in a high-end catalogue
Never sent to the likes of me
This land is my land, wherever I stand
What God has made let no man lease

Some of the phrases in that rhetoric
that you're stuttering
Must mean the opposite to you than it does to me
Being scared and confused is a part of freedom
Is that what you wanted me
to get out of that speech?
Is there another America than the one I live in?
And why do I get their TV?
This land is my land,
and you should understand that
When you say 'we'

Oh say can you see

That the America that you live in is not this one
And you don't protect or represent me
This land is my land, from where I stand
Outside the gated communities
I can see there's another America
than the one I live in
And what they're exporting is me
This land is my land, wherever I stand
I'll see you in the funny papers
From the penitentiary

This land is my land, wherever I stand
You want to take it away from me
This land is my land, from where I stand
Outside the gated communities
This land is my land, and do you understand
You aren't representing me?
This land is my land, wherever I stand
They'll never take it away from me
This land is my land, I mean, goddamn,
You're embarrassing me