Standing for nothing, frivolous, unconscious   A flag tells you just be the same   Amidst contentment, complacence, a dozen warring nations   And you just add fuel to the flame   Anthems told me what to be, tried to tell me how to see   And still I held their ideals as a curse   While the big-wigs decided we'll all be divided   Opposing factions put cash in the purse      It's so simple to see what's behind the faded glory   Stand on guard for thee and what they'd have me be   Reject what they say, deny what they feel   Stand up and walk past those who'd have you kneel   Reject what they say, deny what they feel   Search with your heart, find what's real      Labelled and jaded, neatly fabricated   With a thick flag blinding your eyes   And the charter in your mouth just spits the anthem out   And we all start believing the lies   The true north strong and free in its archaic vanity   Sets an image for the world well put forth   But when welfare's on the block   And there's munitions in the stock   One wonders what the hell it's all worth      Are you proud of what your fore fathers did   For God and country everything that they said   Thank God you can say this is where you were born      Are you proud of all the natives who fell   Of all the soldiers forced off into hell   Sent home wrapped in the flag they died for      Tagged, marked, and branded, mentally short-handed   Smile this is the best place on earth   While evil twisted premiers half a century my age   Won't admit to my education's worth   So I'll sit back complacent, silent, and patient   And wonder what the hell is so great   About 60 million hands renovating stolen lands   And a government founded on spite      And you'll be the better for it one day