Liberty Is a Statue

She said «no, you’re not a girl you are a boy
You’d best start acting like one or i
I’ll tell your mom i’ll tell your dad
I’ll send you to the principle again
Now for the last time tell me what have you learned today?»
«teacher, teacher, i learned that there is only one way
That i can live. and that’s the way that they program in the textbooks and the
tv screens
Hey mom, what did i learn today in school? i learned how to be a boy
I learned how to be a man
And i learnd that there’s an 'us,' ther’s a 'them'
There are good guys there are bad guys
The bad guys aren’t allowed to be your friends
And i learned all about liberty
It’s a statue in a harbor near a city called new york
It’s a statue in a harbor near a city called new york
It’s a statue in a harbor near a city called new york
And i learned, statues are things that we build
To remind us of things that have died
But wait, i’m so confused because they told us that sharing was good
But then i look at my own town and the one next door
And i wonder why we don’t share some of our mansions
With their four car garages?
And them in their broken-down mills
And the dirty river that runs between us
It’s not safe to swim across. they told us so on a field trip
To the other side