Katie Callahan - Burn It Down

There once was a powerful nation
Imagined by escaped refugees
Built on backs of stolen people
And their children for centuries
And now this City on a Hill
Can't outrun its may ills
By forgetting its own history
So a man took his place at the pulpit
Spitting fire, fear, and fallacy and foe
Found a congregation fertile
With violent fragile souls
He declared himself a king
Now says a lot of stupid things
With masses cheering at his vertigo
With audacity that only comes with lying
Drinking his own name like cheap, diluted wine
Claim god and country and for the people
With the fiction of the Good old Days enshrined
With amphibious lips he frowns
"Drain the swamp, burn it down"
Well sir, that's a concept I can get behind
But if we burn it down, down, down
Can we build it back up from the bottom
Not for fear or fighting
But for love
So what now, what happens after insurrection?
The foundation and the scaffolding exposed
No patriots hiding in the shadows
Just an emperor without his clothes
That which clarifies can sting
Without Truth, no unity
Can make poetry from our broken prose
But if we burn it down, down, down
Can we build it back up from the bottom
Not for fear or fighting
But for love
But for love
But for love
But for love
If we burn it down, down, down
Can we build it back up from the bottom
Not for fear or fighting
But for love
But for love

Written by:
Katie Callahan

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