Okay, now that all the yearly patriotism hoopla’s out of the way, let’s get back to hating America!
1
Rufus Wainwright, “Going to a Town” (Release the Stars, 2007) “I’m gonna make it up for all of the Sunday Times/I’m gonna make it up for all of the nursery rhymes/They never really seem to want to tell the truth/I’m so tired of you, America.”
2
Morrissey, “America Is Not the World” (You Are the Quarry, 2004) “‘The land of the free,’ they say/‘And of opportunity,’ in a just and a truthful way/But where the president is never black, female or gay.”
3
Choking Victim, “F--k America” (No Gods, No Managers, 1999) “McDonald’s will bloom as the major competition between Jesus and the Devil for this government’s religion/People so caught up in the freedom that they see while America’s f--king over every single country.”
4
Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the U.S.A.” (Born in the U.S.A., 1984) “Got in a little hometown jam/So they put a rifle in my hand/Sent me off to a foreign land/To go and kill the yellow man.”
5
Woody Guthrie, “This Land Is Your Land” (1940) “In the squares of the city, in the shadow of a steeple/By the relief office, I’d seen my people/As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking/‘Is this land made for you and me?’”
6
Anti-Flag, “Their System Doesn’t Work for You” (North America Sucks, 1996) “You tried to teach me to pray and go to school/You tried to teach me to be the system’s tool/But you missed what I was smart enough to see/That their system doesn’t work/for you or me.”
7
Dixie Chicks, “Lubbock or Leave It” (Taking the Long Way, 2006) “Dust bowl, Bible belt/Got more churches than trees/Raise me, praise me, couldn’t save me/Couldn’t keep me on my knees.”