Liberty Is A Statue Lyrics & Chords By Evan Greer

She said "no, you are not a girl you are a boy.

You'd best start acting like one or i

Will tell your mom i'll tell your dad

I'll send you to the principle again

Now for the last time tell me what have you learned today?"

"teacher, teacher, i learned that there is only one way

That i can live. and that's the way that they program

In the textbooks and the tv screens"

Hey mom, what did i learn today in school?

I learned how to be a boy.

I learned how to be a man.

And i sang "my country 'tis of thee"

Because i like to sing.

And i learned that there's an 'us,' there's a 'them'

There are good guys there are bad guys

And the bad guys aren't allowed to be your friends.

And i learned all about liberty

It's a statue in a harbor near a city called new york

And i learned, statues are things that we build

To remind us of things that have died.

But wait, i'm so confused

Because they told us that sharing was good

But then i look at my own town

And the one next door

And i wonder why we don't share some of our mansions

With the four car garages?

And them in their broken-down mills

And the dirty river that runs between us

It's not safe to swim across.

They told us so on a fieldtrip

To the other side.