This is the modern age of democracy
The land of the free is not of the few
And we're all angry with salvation
Nobody wants to sing for you
They're manacled and lynching at the borders
But the neutral ground resistors are protecting them
There's a house that no one man should climb too
Cut down those damn white gods of men
Oh corruption come lately
Plantation Daddy on the rise
It's your time to turn brother against brother
Mister history's not on your side
We just wanna look after the place and our babies
The misogynist never stops to wonder how it feels
They're selling us to the lowest bidder
The new cotton spirituals are bleeding in new cotton fields
Give me three fingers of bourbon
Humanity be brave it's what we do
There's democratic slavery on every corner
Nobody wants to sing for you
Oh corruption come lately
Plantation Daddy on the rise
It's your time to turn brother against brother
Mister history is not on your side