New America lyrics

Do you know the cost of future misery?

Have you lost your sense of sustainability?

We are just a step away from realizing

What we strive to be

But we've got to break out from this insulated

Blind and lame senility

Wake up the new America

Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)

Transcend the mass hysteria

Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)

Change is the thing you're wary of

Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)

We need a new America

Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)

Laurels, human triumph, bestowments from the past

Victories don't mean a thing if they don't last

We are just marching toward extinction

With blinders on our eyes

Jeopardizing everything we've learned

And come to realize

You call that wise?

Open your eyes, America

Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)

See through the lies they tell to us

Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)

Confront the fears that worry us

Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)

We need a new America

Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)

Now 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

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

We are the new America

Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)

This is the new America

Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)

We are the new America

Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh)

This is the new America

Whoa-oh (Whoa-oh) Let's go!

• Artist:Bad Religion
• Album:The New America (2000)