Evan Greer - Liberty Is a Statue lyrics

She said "no, you are not a girl you are a boy. You'd best start acting like one or i Will 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 sang "my country 'tis of thee" Because i like to sing. And i learned that there's an 'us,' there's a 'them' There are good guys there are bad guys And 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 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 the 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 fieldtrip To the other side.