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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Bad Religion
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Greg Graffin
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Todd Rundgren
Producer
Bob Clearmountain
Mixing Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Do you know the cost of future misery?
Have you lost your sense of sustainability?
We are just a step away
From realizin' what we strive to be
But we've got to break out
From this insulated blind and lame senility
[Verse 2]
Wake up to the new America
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Transcend the mass hysteria
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Change is the thing you're wary of
Oh, oh, oh, oh
We need a new America
Oh, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 3]
Laurels, human triumph
Bestowments from the past
Victories don't mean a thing
If they don't last
[Verse 4]
We are just marching toward extinction
With blinders on our eyes
Jeopardizin' everything
We've learned and come to realize you call that wise?
[Verse 5]
Open your eyes America
Oh, oh, oh, oh
See through the lies they tell to us
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Confront the fears that worry us
Oh, oh, oh, oh
We need a new America
Oh, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 6]
We don't have to be afraid to reinvent
We've got to start to build, progress and implement
For when we take our fill and never pay the price
We only build ourselves a fleeting, false paradise
[Verse 7]
Yeah, you can live in staunch denial
And mark me as your enemy
But I'm just a voice among the throng who want a brighter destiny
They say with me
[Verse 8]
We are the new America
Oh, oh, oh, oh
This is the new America
Oh, oh, oh, oh
We are the new America
Oh, oh, oh, oh
This is the new America
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Let's go
Written by: Greg Graffin