There will always be America in the news
Not explaining itself, each word unsaid
Another word for nothing left to lose.

As long as there is someone forced to choose
Between protection and their daily bread
There will always be America in the news.

Sounds true, there’s nothing you can’t use
Or kill. The letters on the bottle read
Another word for nothing left to lose.

When the wedding guests stop their dance, confused,
And gaze up at the buzzing overhead—
There will always be America in the news.

Guitars, guns, folded flags, ways we amuse
Ourselves have all begun to sound instead
Another word for nothing left to lose.

But after shepherds, presidents have fled,
And all that’s left’s the word in someone’s head,
There will always be America in the news,
Another word for nothing left to lose.