10/20/2024
"A Country Without A Country" by longtime friend and Vegas-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Chuk Peña is a song about losing our way that we helped Chuk record in 2019 toward the end of the last administration.
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"A Country Without A Country"
© ℗ 2019 Chuk Peña Music
A CNN show put these thoughts
And words in my mind
Then I remembered
A quieter, gentler time
We knew how to work together
Despite party lines
When we thought
We thought as one
When we fought
We still got things done
We did all the right things
And cheered for
Our leaders in song
But today, there's a con-man
With his pawns
And a shady legal defense
And a country without a country
Sure brings tears to these
Tired, old weary eyes
We once trusted heroes
Who knew how to get things done
Did right by us here
When the race was long ago won
Along comes the con-man
Convinced he's our "favorite son”
And the Red & the Blue can't agree
On anything, they clearly see
So the con-man hijacks
My life, my liberty
My heart’s on fire
The flames consume
My every sense
And a country without a country
Sure brings tears to these
Tired, old weary eyes
You don't have to work hard
A rich Mom or Dad will do
They can buy your way in
Far ahead of the working class fool
You can walk the new quad
Your parents paid for — it’s kool
Yet, the lessons we pass along
Whether they're right
Or they're wrong
We have to do better,
If we’re going to get along
So move on, my friend,
Go sell it somewhere else!
‘Cause a country without a country
Sure brings tears to these
Tired, old weary eyes
Instrumental break
More divided than ever
In so many different ways
By color, by culture,
By class, and social decay
And don't turn your back on your
False idol, Citizen Kane
Well, so much for
"Your tired and your poor"
The free world ain't free anymore
So pay up or shut up, or
You'll be shown out the door
Yeah, the Liberty Bell's still cracked
Way too quiet all these years
And a country without a country
Is more than these
Tired, old weary eyes can bear
And a country without a country
Is more than these
Tired, old weary eyes can
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