A country was born from revolution we stood for something with a constitution send us huddled masses, send us prisoners we overcame the evil of the world separate the church and state, abolished slavery somewhere along the line we forgot what we stood for OH OOH OH RISE AND FALL innovation, invention, a modern way of thinking it was hard but we got out of the depression civil rights, equal rights, improving as a nation give me your tired, give me your poor, yearning to breathe free we care about each other, we had it all or did we fall from the start? somewhere along the line we forgot what we stood for OH OOH OH RISE AND FALL the wretchold refuse that we used to be came from fallen lands to form our own country but have we forgot about those who were here slaughtering innocent natives doesn't seem fair our modern day leaders with too many laws our society with too much hate world police with secret foreign hate and all you care about is what's on tv OH OOH OH RISE AND FALL