Wasted the Day ft. Changes Lyrics

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time

With the blood of patriots and tyrants

It is its natural manure

So thirsty for many years

But the calls fell on deaf ears

Thus always – to water the tree

But you thought you'd keep it all for free

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper

Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle

Squandered away

What they left you to hold and to guard

An oath to betray

Squandered away

The ruins all ashen and charred

Just wasted the day

Whenever the people are well informed

They can be trusted with their own government

That whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice

They may be relied on to set them to rights

Never thought it would fall

Never thought you'd lose it all

Didn't heed the gun – advise

Didn't want to pay the price

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization

It expects what never was and never will be

Squandered away

What they left you to hold and to guard

An oath to betray

Squandered away

The ruins all ashen and charred

Just wasted the day

There is no act, however virtuous

For which ingenuity may not find some bad motive

Dissolution – but just for you

And all your power they took that too

No rights to claim – just bend the knee

You broke the axiom of liberty

To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow

And years of desolation pass over

Yet the object is worth rivers of blood, and years of desolation

Squandered away

What they left you to hold and to guard

An oath to betray

Squandered away

The ruins all ashen and charred

Just wasted the day

What's left to say

But a curse to the end of the earth

To see their decay

What's left to say

If there are any left of some worth

Somehow make them pay

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past