Evan Alexander Moore - Backbone of America Lyrics

I hear broken melodies
Echo down the Maternity Ward
Where newborn babies are passing notes
Discussing the next world war
Well the sergeant came by
Your son's died in Iraq
Now I know what they were talkin' about
They were talkin' about, the Backbone of America

Out by the river in Mississippi, Goddam
I hear murmurs down the trail
Of friends of mine, going deaf or blind
To slurs hurled their way
He was walkin' with melanin
And they shot him in the back
Now I know what they're talkin' about
They were talkin' about, the Backbone of America

Whispers over the dinner table
Parents talk workin' class woes
With all the crippled bulls and economy
The bankers never saw jail bars no
Now I'm waist deep in the Hudson
Scrounging around
Now I know what my parents were talking about
They were talkin' about, the Backbone of America

I found strife in amphetamine
I found amphetamine, in a Texas dive bar
But the Land of the Free, she was callin' me
Asking for a better way

Out on the highway, I saw the sunrise
I asked a vagabond, if I could be reborn
See they, issued a draft, and raised my taxes
Askin' for all I had and more
Well the drifter kept going
But I didn't give up hope
I hadn't found what I was looking for
All thanks to, the Backbone of America

For every painful knot in our back
There's another that pushes us forth
For every bone that takes the ones we love
There's another that gives us hope
Yeah, I hear it in every friend, every philosophy
Every singer that's ever inspired me
They were singing about, the Backbone of America
Put your middle fingers up, to the backbone of
Oh who gives a f*ck, about the backbone of
Well let's raise a glass to the backbone of
America