Subdivision

I thought, "I can't just walk past you, this can't just be true"

And I wonder then, what it will take for my country to rise
And while America gets its heart cut right out of its chest

So we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughter
Just to prove they got no manners, no mercy, and no sense

The Berlin wall still runs down main street
And the old farm road's a four-lane that leads to the mall
And my dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall
And put up houses on little loop-d-loop streets
The ghost of old buildings are haunting

In the boarded up stores and the broken down houses
I remember the first time I saw someone lying on the cold street
Serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water

First we admit our mistakes and then we open our eyes
Separating east side from west
And I wonder then what it will take for my city to rise
It's amazing the things that we all learn to do
So they hang colorful banners off all the street lamps
And nothing is stirring, not even a mouse
Parking lots in the city of good neighbors that history forgot
First we admit our mistakes and then we open our eyes
'Til nation's last taker succumbs to one last dumb decision

But I learned by example to just keep moving my feet