Wasteland of the Free

Living in the wasteland of the free...
 We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines
 and their speech is growing increasingly unkind
 They say they are Christ's disciples
 but they don't look like Jesus to me
 and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
 We got politicians running races on corporate cash
 Now don't tell me they don't turn around and kiss them peoples' ass
 You may call me old-fashioned
 but that don't fit my picture of a true democracy
 and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
 We got CEO's making two hundred times the workers' pay
 but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage
 and If you don't like it, mister, they'll ship your job
 to some third-world country 'cross the sea
 and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
 Living in the wasteland of the free
 where the poor have now become the enemy
 Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
 Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
 Living in the wasteland of the free
 We got little kids with guns fighting inner city wars
 So what do we do, we put these little kids behind prison doors
 and we call ourselves the advanced civilization
 that sounds like crap to me
 and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
 We got high-school kids running 'round in Calvin Klein and Guess
 who cannot pass a sixth-grade reading test
 but if you ask them, they can tell you
 the name of every crotch on mTV
 and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
 We kill for oil, then we throw a party when we win
 Some guy refuses to fight, and we call that the sin
 but he's standing up for what he believes in
 and that seems pretty damned American to me
 and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
 Living in the wasteland of the free
 where the poor have now become the enemy
 Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
 Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
 Living in the wasteland of the free
 While we sit gloating in our greatness
 justice is sinking to the bottom of the sea
 Living in the wasteland of the free
 Living in the wasteland of the free
 Living in the wasteland of the free