Desaparecidos, Tim Kasher - City on the Hill lyrics
[Desaparecidos, Tim Kasher - City on the Hill lyrics]
All the founding fathers sowed their seeds
Into servant girls
All the godless heathens had to leave
To make a newer world
So we could live together in America
Justice is blind, man so is love
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
All the stolen melodies they played
In the hit parade
All the power spirituals, they fade
In the salad days
So we could sing together in America
The price of an anthem paid in blood
Bodies stacked like hundred dollar bills
To build that shining city on the hill
There’s no guilt, regret, or shame
It just had to be this way
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
If you scheme and hustle, don’t get caught
Gotta risk it all
Or hang on every number they read off
For the Powerball
We’ll all get rich together in America
Money’s indifferent so is love
Trash bags full of hundred dollar bills
We left that broke down city on the hill
Had to relocate the past
Because we’re never going back
Into servant girls
All the godless heathens had to leave
To make a newer world
So we could live together in America
Justice is blind, man so is love
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
All the stolen melodies they played
In the hit parade
All the power spirituals, they fade
In the salad days
So we could sing together in America
The price of an anthem paid in blood
Bodies stacked like hundred dollar bills
To build that shining city on the hill
There’s no guilt, regret, or shame
It just had to be this way
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
If you scheme and hustle, don’t get caught
Gotta risk it all
Or hang on every number they read off
For the Powerball
We’ll all get rich together in America
Money’s indifferent so is love
Trash bags full of hundred dollar bills
We left that broke down city on the hill
Had to relocate the past
Because we’re never going back