Luyện nghe bài hát The Great American Novel

I was born and an orphan in a land that once was free
In a land poured its love out on the moon;
and I grew up in the of your silos filled with grain,
but you never helped to fill my spoon.

And when I was ten you murdered law with politics,
And you to make a lie sound just like truth;
But I know you better now and I fall for all your tricks,
And lost the one advantage of my youth.

You kill a black man at midnight for talking to your daughter,
Then you make his wife mistress and you leave her without water;
And the sheet you wear upon your face is the sheet your sleep on,
At every meal you say a prayer; you don't believe but still you on.

And your says in God we trust,
But against the law to pray in school;
You say we the Russians to the moon,
And I say you starved children to do it.

You are far the ocean but the war is not your own,
And while you're winning theirs, you're gonna lose the one at
Do you really the only way to bring about the peace
Is to sacrifice your children and kill all your

The all make speeches while the news men all take note,
And they exaggerate the issues as they shove down our throats;
Is it really up to whether this country sinks or floats?
I wonder who would lead us if none of us would vote.

Well my phone is tapped and my are chapped from whispering through the fence,
You know every move I make, or is that just
you try to make my way of life a little less like jail,
If I promise to tapes and slides and send them through the mail.

And your money in God we trust,
But it's against the law to pray in
You say we the Russians to the moon,
And I say you starved your to do it.
You say all men are equal, all men are brothers,
why are the rich more equal than others?
Don't ask me for the answer, I've got one:
That a man leaves his darkness he follows the Son