Oh beautiful for children's cries as fireworks fill the air We celebrate with explosions, reminder of war here and there Spacious skies cover us, God sheds His Grace on thee Sacrifice is never easy, it's up to you and me A nation, under God, reminds us of our sins Prayer, forgiveness, let's us bridge the differences within Amber, brown, are but colors, don't make you less or more How you treat your neighbor makes a nation shore to shore Oh beautiful for sacrificial hearts that beat their last We won't have a future unless we honor the past Driven to repel evil deeds, answered when it called Our country's honor built in blood where every drop did fall You sit in placid liberty and dream of golden years Patriotic songs are sung your heart wrings forth no tears The government is not a tit to be sucked with mindless impunity Nor a vassal state engaged by all in wholesale depravity America, America, once thou were great, when generations gave Embracing dream of those arriving fought from birth to grave We are all immigrants upon this celestial ball It only becomes reality when we teach The Spirit's call Blended knee before the throne will give our lives a meaning A Holy God abhors our selfishness and constant outward preening Oh God, I ask today, mend not my every flaw Instill in me that patriot dream the revolutionaries saw Oh beautiful, our land shall bloom when we put God first A flowing well from pure of heart will quench our every thirst Sea to shining sea brought forth, fruitful cooperation And then we shall be, once again, that from one many nation
